Due to the drizzle not much was done in the garden over the last couple of days apart from the old council trick of going over the soil (down the vegetable bed at the bottom of the garden) very very lightly with a garden fork before a storm or a shower so when the rain comes it gives the impressive a lot of deep forking and hard work had be going on! Well it makes it looks the bed appear a bit neater anyway.
And another light layer of comfrey leaves were ripped up and left on top of the freshly forked-over compost heap. We couldn’t find any decent borage or nettle leaves that would have added to the heap which was a shame but you should have seen the steam (or was it dust?) that came off the heap when we turned it! #compostinginlockdown.
This post was written while listening to this week’s This is a music show 77 which featured some great tunes as ever especially Rupert and The Rolling Coins from The Bahamas with Grooving which we can’t find on youtube which is a crying shame!
https://soundcloud.com/thisisamusicshow/this-is-a-music-show-077
The last few days haven’t been that warm but they’ve been nice enough to go out and catch up on a few jobs in the garden. I know we mentioned we weren’t going to put in those pre-chitted spuds on Good Friday as per tradition but we cracked yesterday (Easter Sunday) and stuck in a couple of rows of 
Talking of protection there’s a couple of tomato plants under the tipped up 
A couple of rows of spinach and basil seed even went in (yes we’re well optimistic about the weather) under a homemade cold frame type affair made out of an old window and some old wood. It was really a ploy to get rid of a “bargain” obtained at B&Q the other day; a massive sack (125L) of multi-purpose compost for £6.50. As soon as we opened the bag we knew why it was so cheap, it honked to high heaven and it’s not something you want to be putting in pots indoors for certain. As the old saying goes “there’s no such thing as a free lunch (or a compost bargain).”
Weeds up to me knees 