Summer 2018

June
So, it is now officially summer but no-one has told the weather.  There was a ridiculously warm week in May but since then it has get wet and chilly. Wet is good in a way, I have not had to water for ages, the seeds have all germinated, I have loads of lettuce and everything else is doing well. Everything is later this year because of the cold winter and whilst rain is useful a bit of warm weather to ripen everything would be nice.
The two swallows who arrived in March stayed on their own until this weekend and now there has been an influx, they are preparing nests again.
August 24th
Summer finally arrived this month, along with the usual influx of visitors, it is so noisy.
On the whole everything has done well though I reckon about 2 weeks behind normal, but looking back I seem to have said that before so maybe it is normal.

All growing well!

Cherry tomatoes just ripening

My neighbours courgette!

People here don't reckon much to my cherry tomatoes but at least mine are ripening! The beans and the mange-tout are now at the end of their season. I've been lucky with my courgette again, it is staying in one place and producing at an acceptable rate! The only thing to have done very badly this year is the plums, and then only the green ones. There are not many plum trees in the village but none of the green ones have fruit whilst the tree with 'plum' coloured fruit is loaded.

Spring 2018

March 22nd
We have had the coldest and wettest winter for years. The sun is shining today but it is going to rain again tomorrow, but I have taken advantage of today's sunshine to start clearing and digging. Now, as I sit here and look out I can see two Swallows, or are they House Martins, I never know, but I am sure they do not normally arrive so early. Maybe summer is on the way!!