Seeds emerging...

I'm beginning to see rewards for all the sowing I did in the greenhouse back in March.  Broad beans which started off like the one below are now 8-10 inches tall in the vegetable patch and doing really well. The journey for the courgettes has been more rocky - one shop-bought courgette plant survived and one of my ones planted from seed too; both are doing well.  I have also had donations from my Step-Dad to my collection of courgettes, sunflowers and herbs which is great!

Our broad been seeds beginning to sprout - more photos to follow soon!

Snails have been doing their best to spoil my fun in the greenhouse which is very disheartening.  They destroyed a courgette, most of the dahlias and were also slowly working through the cucumbers!  So, the kitchen window-sill has now become an extension to the greenhouse. I'm also using space in the conservatory as a haven for plants - I will not be defeated by snails!

The weather was so wet in April - and also very mixed this month in May - that the appeal of the garden has lessened: I do like it warm and sunny if I am going to work out in the garden!  Anyway, regardless of a few missed days of watering here and there, everything is still doing fine and I'm now moving on to the next stage of thinning out the seeds and planting out.  I have to remember that in a few months time I will be eating my own produce and then all the trials and tribulations will look to have been worth it!

Dreaming of strawberries to come!