Heavy rain with hail!!!

A lovely day it was, happy planting of peas and moving plants around, and all of a sudden it all went dark and then down came a strong shower of rain with small hailstones. it went away to be followed by another half an hour later. Fortunately the blossoms haven't all been stripped from the plum and the poor delicate pea seedlings are still upright.
I made a climbing fame from bamboo and string, hopefully they will love it and go for glory, and lots of peas.
:)



Here is a shot of the frames

A break in the weather

I managed to get the back lawn mowed this afternoon, there were going to be more showers. Also turned over the compost heap into the second bin to air it and now we can start a new one. The plum tree is now in full blossom and busy bees are doing their thing, hopefully they are bringing pollen from neighbouring plum trees.



All systems go for planting things now the sun is fully on the vegetable patch, some pea seedlings ready to plant

Lovely spring Sunday

It was most pleasant to spend time in the garden hacking and pruning to let more light in. Took out the highest bits of the feijoa tree and trimmed the hedge and pittosporums along the back fence! Whew!
Still getting a nice supply of broccoli sprouts and now the sun is fully on the vegetable garden everything is starting to show signs of life, the forest pansy is hinting pink, the plum has flowers like popcorn, more each day



bought more beetroot seedlings and a punnet of peas, we shall see

More spring!

Had to grab a close up of the pink blossom today, it was nice and sunny for a short time, so I took the opportunity to fill in the rows of carrot seedlings with another sowing in the patches where none had come up. Same with the parsnips. The garlic had grown a few with mutliple shoots so I dug them out gently and have separated them and planted them out singly.



And here is a snap of the plum showing it's intentions...

Signs of Spring!

Yes indeedy, there are hints of green on the nubs on the branches of the Fortune plum tree!
And the Prunus is blossoming madly. Even though it's all wet and gray today it makes for a pretty photo, quite Japanesy I reckon.



The garlic is all up and is a 100% success, every clove I planted has come up. Not bad.
After removing the large broccoli heads we left the plants in the ground and have now been able to harvest many nice small head-lets from the leaf joints.