Ravendale House

What a disaster. Only 2 days ago I was thinking how well my cauliflowers were doing. Yesterday when I looked they were like umbrella skeletons, no leaves left at all. I’m so upset.

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Sweetcorn is such an amazing crop to grow. I sowed 33 seeds on Thursday and by yesterday morning 9 had germinated. This morning there were 26.

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It’s now almost a week since the plug plants arrived, and to be honest the jury’s still out. The begonias certainly look better than they did, but neither they nor the geraniums have done much in the way of growing. Perhaps I should just be glad they’re still alive.

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Today was a typical Easter Sunday, grey and damp with tomorrow’s forecast being little better. Good old Bank Holiday weather, along with death and taxes, it’s just about the only thing you can rely on.

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Frantic bitter lemon drinking and a rummage in the dark recesses of the garage have provided some more Schweppes cloches, so today I planted out 12 cauliflowers. My idea is to leave them about a week so their roots can get established and them I’ll remove the cloches and cross my (green) fingers, as they certainly are a bit wimpy looking.

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Today it has been very windy, and the morning was a bit of a wash-out, but the sun shone this afternoon, so I took the opportunity to relocate all the turf off-cuts from Wednesdays exertions.

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Never let it be said that we don’t do a proper job once we start. Despite feeling absolutely dreadful after yesterdays activities, we were out in the garden again this afternoon to finish what we’d started.

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Today we finally tackled the Pythagoras job in the vegetable garden. We’ve been working up to it for weeks. What a job! Not made easier by the fact that we’re both still suffering the effects of a very bad cough and cold. But the sun was shining (even though it was blowing a gale) and the job needed doing urgently, so that’s what we did.

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As I suspected I have got Peter’s cold, so I didn’t feel like attempting anything too energetic today.

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When we bought Billy the shed last year, it was a bit late in the season. I was busy doing ‘end of year’ stuff, so although we put lots of things into him, I didn’t exactly arrange it very well, as I always seemed to have more important things to do.

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