Planted five beds yesterday. #12 is a full bed of Chervil. #21 has Tom Thumb in. #22 has more Snowball Baby Turnip. #1 is full of Little Gem and #2 has more F1 Safari Courgettes.

Getting there slowly but surely. In the foreground is a bed of snowball baby turnips.

The spuds are bursting out of their bags

The strawberries are coming along nicely

Nick has been transferred to the hospice in Raheny and has made me promise to keep going up in the garden. I have to say that this year we are a month at least behind on everything. On Thursday the weather changed for the better so yesterday I went in to Plant Life on Cork St and bought loads of really healthy herb plants. I got some Oregano, Rosemary, Flat Leaf Parsley, Dill, Thyme and Garden Mint. These have all been replanted in to new ceramic pots.

This year we are putting a full bed aside for three herbs. Chervil, Coriander and Dill. Yesterday I got one bed done with Coriander. I sowed three types, all Thompson & Morgan, regular, confetti and calypso.

Poor Nick is in hospital, so Suzie and I were up on the land yesterday. We planted 2 beds of courgettes, and a bed each of baby beetroot and baby white snowball turnips. The spuds are doing very nicely and about half the bags needed earthing up. Later Suzie did a lot of weeding and I sowed seeds in 14 trays of seeds in the propagator. In no particular order I sowed; Italian Kitchen Basil, Nobellan Lettuce, F1 Red Ace Beetroot, Baby Snowball Turnip, Mint, Tom Thum Lettuce, Sweet Green Basil,  F1 Action Beetroot and Little Gem Lettuce.

On the right here you can see that the courgettes were ready so they were sent….

………to their new bed.