Sunny outside

Sunny days mean just one thing, garden, I've been outside everyday, just a couple of hours, because it's still cold, the sunshine and blue skies only give you so much. Most of my time has been in the back section of the garden, my working area, I've moved pots and made some space. Hubby made this small raised bed, it's covered for now, I will put sweet peas in there, in hope they grow up the fence and give me loads of blooms, the bottom has wire on but sits on soil, so plenty of room for roots. My two hosta pots sit here until they start to grow.

Hubby pinned the huge bug house onto the garage wall, it does not get so much sun, but it is sheltered from most of the rain. There is still space infront to put both my potato bags, as you are aware I try and use every bit of space I can find. This part of the wall has loads of bug and bird houses. I have my huge pot with tulips growing here as well, I will move it soon, afterwards I grow tomatoes in it.

My pond has done well through the cooler months, sadly no frogs, I hope to get local frog spawn, the smaller round pond was adding nothing to this area, I constantly have to top it up, so I decided to remove it, the container is always useful so it's back in the garage.

I decided to move one of my grasses, there is loads of room for it to grow here at the back, I did purchase a few pots of daffodils, I did not want to dig any out elsewhere. I moved a primrose into the hole from the moved grass, so a cheap and easy revamp.

I'm keeping on top of weeding, which has never been much of an issue here, this spring I am getting more weeds, mainly in the flower beds, I think brought in with the plants I purchased last year. I have tidied my greenhouse, cleared space for seed trays, I don't have many seeds, mainly veg, I tend to purchase small plug bedding plants and grow on.

I am feeling so much better, the sunshine and working outside always helps, we have had too many grey days, stuck inside feeling blue. I hardly ever want to go out on dull days and almost never on cold wet days. I have no big plans outside, which is a new feeling for me, having wanted more for years, our garden is truly full.

We have more rat holes coming from next door, one was big enough (or maybe a fox digging) to worry about Lilly escaping, hubby dug out a deep trough along our fence and poured in concrete, not ideal but hopefully it will stop them, we have sorted so many holes, there aren't many places they can get through.