The weather's been warmer for a few weeks and things are finally starting to grow at the allotment. The perennial French sorrel and chives are always the first spring crop - the last week they've gone into salads as well as a sauce for cod, and an omelette with English asparagus. And then the rhubarb of course - I've already made rhubarb, rose and cardamom jam, and this weekend I'm trying out rhubarb vodka for the first time :-) Of this year's sowings and plantings, the shallots and broad beans started to push through the soil surface first, and this week the potatoes (Charlotte, again). The comfrey was tall enough to take a first cutting today, for a mulch on the potatoes, the fruit bushes are in full leaf, and the damson tree is blossoming. Hoping we don't have a late frost like last year, which meant no damsons at all (and no sloes... and more to the point, no sloe gin!). And oh yes, all the weeds are getting into their stride too...
No comments:
Post a Comment