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Every time I go out in the garden I see more little patches of green. Winter is fading and the weather is edging slowly towards Spring...


Little clumps of fresh Chives are popping up.

It won't be long before there are enough to justify snipping a few to bring into the kitchen. I was making a tomato salad, and I just couldn't resist snipping a few Chives to go on it!

The first batch of peas has come up now. These are "Early Onward". I sowed them in a pot, which has been protected by one of my little mini-greenhouses.

When they are big enough, I'll plant them in one of the raised beds. Hopefully this will mean I get a small crop very early on. I'll be sowing some more seeds in the raised bed in due course, for my main crop.


I have potted-on some of those little Hellebores that I grew from seed pinched from the stately home. They will do better in fresh compost, and without competition from their siblings.

Hellebore seedlings are easy to identify once their first true leaves appear. The leaves have a distinctive saw-toothed edge.

At the rate things are going, I'll soon have the borders full of Hellebores!