I still haven’t sown anything on the plot, as the amount of weeding and prep is still just insane!

It’s all about weeding and tidying and it takes so much longer than I think it will. First let’s talk about good things. There are baby strawberries, the potatoes are making an appearance.

The peony is flowering despite the absolute state of the bed they live in and the murder attempts by the loganberry and grass..

This weekend, I went back to the bed next to the gooseberries and dug out some more bindweed, then I added a layer of cardboard, topped up with compost and covered for the time being. I know that I have bindweed issue there and the cardboard won”t stop it but it’ll slow it down. In a week or two I’m going to set up some bamboo and grow black beans there, with lettuce underneath.

Then I started again on weeding the gooseberries, I’m not done but I finally cleared a path through, I’ll go back to it and do some more but I find gooseberries disheartening and prickly so I’m just doing it a bit at a time.

Then I had a go at the rosemary, it has got a bit big for it’s boots and it’s time for a massive hair cut. As I was doing this I had an idea for the spare bed as it fits the space. I’ll fix it, fill it up with compost and use it for some of my new herbs. So I moved the bed to where I want it.

I also cleared, cardboarded, topped up and covered the boxes next to the rosemary. The arch up it is in need of repair or replacement, so I’ll have a think about what to grow in them, I was thinking about squash but that will be determined by whether there is an arch.

I did a small bit of bed tidying near the polytunnel and admired my roses.

There is so much to do! Priorities for May are netting the fruit bushes, getting beds topped up, weeding and sowing some seeds indoors.

I’m going to be busy!