Weather dominates everything in the garden at present. From the raw and bitter cold of the past few weeks to brighter and warmer conditions these past few days to today's wind and heavy rain. Spring is late, the garden held in check.After an encouragingly light, bright and positively hopeful morning, just when I was about to plant out our potatoes, the heavens opened and a wind careered in. A task I had been looking forward to and had delayed until a break in the weather, turned into a sodden labour of sullen toil.
No matter, all the first early potatoes are in and this year we are trialling a range of varieties including - Rocket (which did very well here last year), Winston, Pentland Javelin and the second early, Charlotte. We will also try the early main crop variety Harlequin as well as Mayan Gold which comes highly recommended.
Our dog celebrates his 9th birthday today and as he sat warm and dry on his comfortable bed, he must have looked out at me through the french doors and wondered what on earth I was doing out in such awful conditions. By the end of the process I was completely sodden and bedraggled but the mission was triumphantly accomplished. I can now move on to the increasingly long list of tasks still undone this dysfunctional and confusing Spring.
