After the rain

 The recent rain has done wonders for the garden, all my water buts are now full again, and after the thunderstorm on Saturday, the ground is no longer dusty dry. My back veg section is looking very productive, we are having regular carrots and broad beans, plus salad bits and of course strawberries. My recent planted runner beans are climbing the posts.

I have very little space to walk around, my bags and buckets are already showing loads of good growth, the flowers are growing tall in their two bags, I'm very hopeful to have cut flowers inside this year, I have finally cracked growing sweet peas, I do love to see them inside, I am regularly picking them. 

My one hosta plant has four blooms growing, both are now much bigger, this new larger pot is working, sadly they both have been munched, the yellow begonia is filling out nicely in the middle front, I have moved it along the fence and it now looks much better, the sun does not reach this spot until the evening. 

We have been moving plants again, the olive tree is now in the corner by the extension,  it's a much sheltered spot, I popped most of the pots with it, the metal table and two chairs don't  really have a space anymore, so I think I might try and sell them.

It's been just too wet to be outside much in the past few days, fortunately there is very little to do, I have a few cuttings, in water, in hope I can add a couple different plants along the back fence and fill the gaps, I also dug out roots from my snowberry plants, I have two existing plants and hopefully made another three, I would like them to fill the back section of my daisy bed. My perennials seeds are very mixed in the greenhouse, I am busy reading up on conditions required, and if I should pop any into fridge or freezer to recreate their normal sprouting cycles. 

I have managed to get some new hurdles (low fences) for my two raised veg beds, I am really disappointed with the split willow ones, they were middle range prices, I expected they would last better than just the year I have had them, the ones I would love are just too expensive, I did look into going on a course to learn to weave them myself, again not at all cheap. So I have gone for budget range, with metal and plastic, in hope they look good from a distance, they work so well in keeping cats off my beds and keeping all the produce from flopping over. 

I've had a cracked tooth removed today, it was not to bad, my jaw aches and I've got to take it easy for a few days, no gardening,  that's going to be fun.