Managed to get out into the garden for a while yesterday, in between darting indoors to watch Ireland’s scrappy victory over England in the rugby.
The irises are in full bloom, both blue and purple varieties.
We planted our new pear tree, and sowed peas, broad beans, sweet peas, antirhinums, anemones and lilies. The greenhouse is now getting full, particularly with the heated propagator.
We dug these potatoes from two of our potato towers this afternoon. We had planted them on 23 August 2004, thinking it might be nice to have new potatoes by Christmas, but somehow never got round to lifting them.
Twenty-four potatoes (weighing 400 g) from an August planting of 12 tubers is probably not a brilliant success rate, but it’s nice to be able to lift new potatoes in February – it really feels like Spring is on the way.
P.S. Just eaten some of the spuds for tea. V. good.