I’m slowly starting to tidy up the plot (boy does it need tidying!) and while I haven’t sown one single solitary thing in Jan or February, I have bought some potatoes, strawberries and various other plants to help spur on the tidying efforts.

So the strawberries. Last year I planted asparagus plants, an initial 10 and then another which gave me about 15, that space is quite weedy and it’s going to produce anything I can eat for a couple of years and I read that strawberries are a good companion to asparagus and help to keep the weeds down. As I’m tidying up the strawberry towers, I’ve also noticed a couple of gaps. So I bought 20 bare root plants for the asparagus patch and six plants for the towers. Then my Kitchen Garden arrived and they had an offer of 20 plants for £7 and so I have lots of strawberry plants for this year.

One of the few things I have managed over the winter is the front of the plot.

I’ve been thinking a row of erigeon down the side, it’s the type of plant I like, hardy, self-seeding and a bit wayward. So I bought some from Thompson and Morgan, and then as it happens they flogged me 24 lavender plugs for £6 and a little star jasmine. Yes, I’m a sucker but I’m a sucker with lots of plants!

So the task for this weekend is more tidying up and potting up strawberries, I got the square beds cleared and weeded the paths around them. Sorted out another of the strawberry towers and planted some of the heath pearlwort in between the tiles

It’s just going to be more weeding, until the compost arrives