Spring Blossom
Feb 25th 2008andyself-sufficiency & food
The fruit trees are bursting out in beautiful blossom. Heres a photo of one of our plum trees:
Some of the seeds that I put in trays are coming up. Spring is certainly here, meaning its time to get busy planting seeds. These are nine star perennial broccolli that were devastated by snails under the plastic, but are being ignored now I have put them outside of the home made ‘cloche’. And a few butternut squash seedlings. Mmmmmm, we love butternuts:
And finally, all our blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes are budding and bursting. This newly planted redcurrant bush is the farthest gone, almost totally in leaf. Definitely a sign that spring is here:
Stumble it!
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gintoino on 25 Feb 2008 at 8:47 pm #
Amazing, looks like spring has arrived there a lot sooner than here in the Algarve. My plum tree doesn’t have any blossoms yet and the currant bush is without any leaves for the moment.
Nice blog, congratulations!
andy on 25 Feb 2008 at 11:52 pm #
thanks, i think we often have ‘better’ weather than the algarve, perhaps because of your proximity to the sea. perhaps winter comes sooner here too, as the sea retains the summer heat on the algarve?