1. A day started with bacon butties can never be a bad day – especially when the bacon is perfectly (ie a little but not too much) crispy.
2. I raid my seed box for things I can sow now – I think I might be addicted to starting off seeds. (I plant a full tray of lettuce, as a follow-up crop for the stuff in the ground now, and some smaller trays of lovage (which has failed directly in the ground) and calabrese.)
2b. Made from scrap wood and not at all square, they’re a slapdash job compared to the ones of a few weeks ago but another two beds are ticked off my to-do list.
2c. I take a pile of canes and a rolls of coated chicken wire to the other plot, assuming I’ll come up with a plan as I go. By the time I’m finished, I have a U-shaped support with 30 pea plants around its edge, and in the middle, facing the southern sun, even blocks of colourful swiss chard and lollo rosso lettuce. I do hope it all grows – it’ll be very pretty as well as productive.
3. Lily rolls on her back, head off the sofa and tongue lolling, as M tickles her belly.
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