Fruit

The strawberries have arrived!!! The strawberries have arrived!!!!!  All 24 of them.  8 honeoye (early), 8 cambridge favourite (main) and 8 Albion (pepetual, 2 crop).  We also have had 3 yellow gooseberry (Una Crispa Hinnonmakii).  Very exciting.  I am going to take the children down the allotment this afternoon, and hopefully Husband with grab them leaving me with an hour or so of daylight to plant them out.  

We also have plenty of germination in the house.  Marrigolds and nasturtiums are all doing well.  I am attempting to get to grips with companion planting.  I do not pretend to be an organic gardener, but E is still young enough that she puts everything in her mouth, so I am reluctant to have too many chemicals about if I can help it. We also have basil, broad beans, moneymaker tomatoes and gardeners delight tomatoes.  I hope Husband gets into the storage shed tonight to rescue my potatoes which really should be chitting by now!!!  

And, on top of all of that, the sun is shining and for once we are not scheduled to the hilt with socialising activities (who knew that home educating could be so busy) that we are going to go out and enjoy this afternoon without much rhyme or reason for doing so!!!.  Happy happy. xxx