Sunshine, Friends, Gardens & Tulips

Hello! I feel pleasantly tired after a day in the sunshine! Soaking up all that vitamin D for sure!
I finally got out to see friends today (Sharon, Paul & their daughter Lottie) and check out their property! We have always ‘planned’ but never quite made the date!

I love seeing someone elses garden and getting a tour along with hearing what the plans are. I find it so inspirational!

Sharon has had the same issue as me so far this season – not many good days to get out and really into the garden. So we both are a little behind getting things weeded and sorted

They have a lovely big space that has a lot of vegetables & fruit already on the go. Raspberry canes popping up all over and a fabulous amount of strawberries.

A little poly tunnel shelters some very happy looking tomatoes & lettuce

Beautiful broccoli flowers that are humming with bees

celery tucked up in tubes!

I am very much loving this lattice made from local dogwood!

I went visiting in my garden clothes (as one does) so we had quite an enjoyable time weeding and chatting in the beautiful weather.

Chickens and new chicks are running all over the place

Rescue dog, Elvis is adorable – sweet friendly fellow!

Sharon & Pauls daughter Lottie, living the charmed life of a country girl – lots of furry and feathery friends, fresh food to pick and eat and running about barefoot in the garden!

Sharon helped me fill a few bags of pine needles from the pine forest opposite their home

Back at home I was able to tick ‘mulching the strawberries & blueberries with pine needles’ off my list

I even spotted some blueberry flowers!

With the remaining daylight I made a good start on digging in my green manure.

I had noticed some birds fly out of the garden when I went in… and wasn’t pleased to see a number of my lettuce being munched!

I had a few stakes/polypipe sets ready to go so I just popped them in the soil and threw a net over. That should sort them out!

I took Sharon up a bunch of seedlings and I was lucky enough to bring back a bucket of young raspberry canes to add to my patch!
We have always been pretty good at mostly bartering a lot of our produce between ourselves.

And as a final treat to the day – stopping by the gorgeous tulip fields on the way home – a bit of delightful colour streaking across the land!

Cheers!