Gardin

[ailbhe]

I think the last of the potatoes came up today. I've transplanted the rhubarb into their old dirt. And I'm in the process of painting a map of the garden, so I can use that to help plan... we have raised beds in our beady eyes.

We've had a tiny strawberry harvest, missed the ripening tomatoes on almost every occasion in exactly the way wildlife didn't, and have nasturtium leaves in salad. I harvested but didn't eat the red and black currants and will need to prune those properly this year if we're going to get any fruit next year.

The apples seem to be doing ok. I must work out which bits to prune. The fig tree is growing but not figifying. I need to crawl into a tiny spiky space to pick gooseberries.

And in inedible plant news, the montbretia from my mother's garden on Aran is flowering beautifully, and one of my two roses has little pink flowers. The bees are very few and far between but they seem to like the wildflower patches.

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Lovely to hear how you're doing. Think of you all, often. :-)