2022 - What I did today

My parents have brought over the plants they have been babysitting for the past 2.5 years - the ones that have survived anyway! I now have my kiwi issai, Szechuan pepper, walking onions, and honeyberry. They have also brought me some extras from them and from my Grandma: a redcurrant (or possibly a whitecurrant), some violets, a white violet, snowdrops, and two varieties of strawberry. Very exciting! They have brought lots of my containers too, so I should be able to pot up my spouted broad beans this afternoon.

I have also started construction of a second bed. I've laid the cardboard and tipped the remaining half of a big bag of compost over it. Unfortunately, I can't lift the full bags on my own, so I will have to wait until I've part emptied the next bag before I can lug another one up the garden. The alternative is to take it a bucket at a time, but that will take forever. My garden isn't suitable for a wheelbarrow, so it's slow and steady or nothing!

I've sown a few more seeds as well: pre-soaked parsley in the propagator, lettuce and rocket in a module tray, and a salad mix in a container in the greenhouse.