Looking back, the post on the 17th of February looks horribly premature.

There has been the odd day that suggested spring might be on the way, but (ironically) it has not been until the bank holiday weekend that the weather has finally started to look genuinely promising.

We have spent some time down on the allotment and the overall plot is looking quite tidy now as the photo below shows.

Looking south 6 May 2012

The strawberry bed is coming on nicely and (given some decent weather) this should really come into its own this year.

Strawberries 6 May 2012

We experimented this year with sowing some early seed potatoes very early in containers inside the greenhouse.  This appears to have worked (so far) and the plants (Lady Christl) are definitely well ahead of their outdoor counterparts and have now been moved outside.  We are hoping that we might be able to start harvesting these around the time of the next bank holiday.

Potato planter 6 May 2012