I love watching my lavenders bloom every day. I have 9 plants in the front of my house and they grow so fast now. Every time I walk past, (I think) I can smell a faint whiff of its fragrance. It's very satisfying.
The other flowers I have are the gadiolus planted last year. There are no flowers yet but there are loads of new shoots. Not sure what to do with them, and whether they will suck energy from the mature flowers and slow down their bloom.
My first harvest this year is the low hanging fruit radish. Here's the first few I harvested and the rest were be even bigger. After reading 
I planted my peas out and apart from one time I caught a slug nibbling on a leaf, so far they're doing ok. The white fluffy stuff around it is sheep wool. Apparently it deters slug. It didn't stop that one nibbling away! Since it's organic and there's been no more incidents, I've left them as mulch.
Talking of slugs, my first strawberry wasn't so lucky today. How very annoying!!😡
Like the rest of Europe, we've had some very hot weather these few days. At last!! I can start to plant things out. My sister gave me a lot of Chinese Kale seedlings and I figured I'd test the water and plant them out. Chinese kale is quite expensive, if they all survive, I'd be saving quite a few pennies. The five plants at the back are sunflowers.
The other veggies I like is bak choi. The timing for my first batch wasn't very good. I kept them in my greenhouse when I went to Alicante and the lack of sun caused them to be quite leggy. I still managed to harvest enough for one meal. So not all was lost. I'm going to sow more seeds next month.
In my last LUT garden journal I mentioned I planted a choyate. Nothing happened for a whole month and I thought it had died. Then suddenly a few days ago I noticed some green underneath the straw! Look how much the new shoots have grown over 4 days.
In a few days time I'm going to plant out my tomatoes. This is just one batch , I have another pot. I have sowed too many seeds and will probably end up giving a lot away.
The courgettes will go out as well next week. I sowed four seeds, gave two plants to my sister, as well as the tray of tomatoes. Then my other sister gave me a few more courgettes today. Now I have to find someone else to give the surplus courgettes away.
These green peppers took forever to germinate, I sowed them two months ago and had nearly given up on them. Maybe I sowed them too early when it was still very cold. Anyway, it looks good now, just need to give them more TLC.
And finally my herbs, thyme and sage, I want to build a herb patch. I could have bought some from the shops, but I like a challenge and there's a lot more satisfaction to grow them from seeds. I'm a bit gutted that only one sage seed germinated,but that's fine. The thyme did well. You win some and lose some.
The next few days will be busy as I start to plant things out in my garden. Can't wait for the growing season to start at last.
