A family of gardeners

I am so proud of my offspring that they have followed in their mothers footsteps and happy to get dirt under their fingernails.

Katy has put the building skills that she learned at Hillview to good use, and her and Terry have made a fantastic wall at the back of the decking which is the perfect size for a railway sleeper seat on the top. Their standard of rendering is fantastic. So next the pond, including a fountain, all hand built in lovely Hampshire.

The lawn has been taken up and a lovely round lawn is in the process of being made.

Puts me to shame how much they achieved in a week.

Now off to Kent where the garden is coming along beautifully. It was greatly helped by it being Tonbridge Home and Garden show last weekend where plants were incredible bargains.

All in one weekend, the lawns were shaped, the beds planted, the riased vegetable beds built and filled and the lawns moved.

I would imagine a few well deserved Kentish ciders were consumed after that lot.

The first crop of the year

After the period when we have been living off leeks and eggs, we have a first crop of the year - broad beans and salad. In fact we have so much salad that we are having two meals a day with salad. The broad beans are delicious and sweet. This is the crop from the greenhouse which should keep us going until the ones outside are ready for picking. The outside ones are about two inches long at the moment so wont be long. For those of you who like to know scale, they are on a dustbin lid.

I have flowers on the tomatoes so it wont be long until we have something to go with the leaves.

Egg update

Some time ago I provide you with photos of all 10 ducks (sadly we lost Florence a couple of weeks ago), today I have photos of 10 eggs all laid this morning. Your mission, should you wish to accept it is to match the duck with her egg!

We are regularly getting 10 a day now so good news that every duck is laying. We have 5 white and 5 blue. There is a huge difference in size and they seem to be getting begger as the summer wears on. The big one in the picture must have been a bit of a strain to lay and is flat on one side. We think this must have been because they are soft when laid and harden within seconds so it must have been so heave that it flattened on the bottom. What a relief that must have been!