Ravendale House

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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It’s that time of year again, that exciting time of year when each morning you come downstairs and the first job is to go into the kitchen to see how many tomatoes have germinated overnight.

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A few years ago we bought a small gunnera in a pot from the local garden centre. We’d seen one several years earlier, planted in the grounds of a garden centre in North Yorkshire, it was majestic and I loved it, so it found itself on my ‘plants I would like list’.

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Today I planted the first of my potatoes, 36 Arran Pilot. They have chitted better than any of the others so are more than ready for planting out.

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Today I sowed my peas, 69 in all with the hope of getting 64. They’re now in the conservatory with the broad beans.

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Today I had planned to sow my peas, but instead I decided to plant my onion sets.

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Today I sowed some tomato and broad bean seeds, the weather, after a bright start isn’t fit to do much else as it is cold and very windy and now it’s just started snowing!

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Good news, the red and white fuchsia cuttings that looked dead on their feet yesterday, are looking perky and interested again today.

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I’ve been checking on the seeds I sowed on the 26th and the news is not good. The lupins are romping on, and the mixed perennials are showing willing, the spring onions are struggling, but there is no sign whatsoever of the lobelias.

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Across the far side of the field we have a ditch that separates our land from our neighbours. Growing out of the far side of this ditch is an old tree. I don’t know what kind it is but it’s gradually falling down on to our side of the boundary.

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