This is the 19th entry from my draft manuscript, working title: Spring in the Cottage Garden. You can read the first instalment by tapping below:
We’ve reached that point in spring where everything goes through a growth spurge and I feel totally overwhelmed by it all. Just as I was starting to feel like I was reasonably on top of progress, I quite suddenly feel like I’m a hundred steps behind and will never be able to manage it all. This is our fourth year here now so I try to remind myself that this happens every year, and every year the growth slows down pretty soon after it starts. It’s just a phase, and it will pass.
The weather has been plant-friendly, alternating between rain and sunshine, with warmer temperatures all round. It’s a good time to be sowing seeds, though I haven’t sown anything at all in the last fortnight. My leeks are looking like they are a much more harvestable size now, and the celery have put on a fair bit of growth, too. My highlight today was seeing the firs…
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