Excavating for brick work

Mapped out and dug out the dirt where the bricks will go. should be a most pleasant spot to catch a ray or two in winter. Bonus outcome was a nice wheelbarrow or three of good garden dirt to distruibute around the vege plot, even some to mound up the leeks some more!
:)

Here's the dug out area


and this is what I'm hoping it will look like next weekend


The cloning is a bit rough, but it gives the idea of how it will look. Hopefully not quite as bumpy.

Garlic shoots!

They're allmost all up and growing well. That part of the garden does not get sun on it as yet, a few more weeks and the sun will have risen higher in the sky to just start bathing that area in goodness and light! The sweetpeas will also really start to grow well then too.

Here are all the little babies starting to show.


I came across a video on the harvesting of garlic that seemed very useful, even explaining the difference between hard and soft shoot varieties:


We moved our large and wonderful rosemary bush to the back of the garden and are now going to prepare the area it was in for a small brick paved area that will be most pleasant to sit in the lovely warm sun at this time of the year. Just figured out how many bricks we need (150)and about 4 bags of ready mixed concrete and it's all go.
:)

Photo of me and Hazel the thunder cat, though she doesn't thunder around the place quite so much in her old age. Nor do I mind you...

Just the very beginning of spring

I say hopefully, there are signs of growth on the rose bushes, the carrot seeds have finally decided to pop their thin little heads out. I had almost given up on them. The parsnips haven't shown as yet. I had planks lying on the beds to keep them moist and nice. They are slow though.
The broccoli has been very nice, the plants that have been left after chopping out the big heads are all growing nice new buds at the leaf joints.
More and more garlic are peeping from the bed.
We still have a nice little supply of last years' harvest we're working through.
:)

The lemons are all nice and ripe but a lot of them have some sort of bottom half blight
The juice is fine though.

Early July already, Yay!

And best daughter gnome comes to stay for a week or two. The garden has been polished and the cat brushed, already for her majesty!
:)
The broccoli is definitely pickable, in fact one was sacrificed for our dinner tonight.



Also we actually have lemons, plural, on the tree. They look all proper and lemony as well!



Gin & tonics, mmmm.