Bulgarian Village Garden

- 2 Indestructible chillies (over 4 days) - 7 Batch 1 tomatoes (over 4 days) - 18 Cucumbers (over 4 days) - Weeded & trowelled Alpine Step - Constructed netting frame using metal poles & wire Planting: - Alpine Strawberries (from seed, 0.25 packet, 1 row, Strawberry Steps)

- 2 tomatoes - Last of the spring onions (11) - Straightened & relaid drip pipes - Dug over top half of herb garden - Herb Garden:   - Georgian thriving   - Mint dead   - New growth on some thyme   - 2 Balm surviving   - Liberated wild oregano from Bansko too dried out to plant - Strawberry Steps:   - Strawberries healthy   - All Alpine Strawberries gone   - 1 borovinki dead, other same as when planted. - Straightened, relaid & covered drip pipes

- 6 enormous cucumbers - Weeded everything - Cut off male courgette flowers - Alpine Strawberries all but gone - Disentangled & tied up cucumbers - Added fifth line of wire to batch 1 tomatoes. Lots developing fruit - Колтуча-ed batch 1 & 2 tomatoes

- Bought Garden Petunia hanging basket - Unusual flower on small lawn rose - Prepared planting area on Strawberry Steps - Dug out an exploratory turnip - Snipped all male flowers off courgettes - 3 cucumbers Planting: - Alpine Strawberries (31 in 2 rows, 2nd level of Strawberry Steps) - Garden Petunia (windowbox on terrace)

- Potting update - Pots outside for the first time - Resurrected Begonia - Forsythia (?) - Walk to Венковец - More Spanish Stonecrop - Primroses waning - Crocuses done - Ivy Geranium & Geranium/Begonia windowboxes back outside - Piano cat