Bulgarian Village Garden

- Owls very active - Abandoned windowbox geraniums - First wave of strawberries over - Rasberries & 'Janki' - First courgettes & cucumbers almost ready - колтуча-ed tomatoes to encourage fruiting. Some flowers forming - Prepared area for next 2 rows of tomatoes & assembled structure - Added more wire to crocodile cucumber row - Spanish Stonecrop finishing - Cat still living on terrace.

- 29 strawberries - First raspberries - Blackberry flowers out - Mock orange finished apart from flowers at very top - Orange lily out in front of wildside wall - Indian Blanket flowering - Spanish Stonecrop flowering - Small orangey rose out - 4 crocodile cucumbers remain, one is developing a cucumber - 11 Satsuki Midori remain - All tomatoes okay - Everything in rows doing well - especially courgette - Ivy Geranium beginning to flower

Developments after 5 days away. Trees: - Apple blossom starting to finish - Pear blossom past peak - Quince blossom starting - Lilac out - New sprigs on Scots Pine Garden: - Tulips all out - Anemone (Snowdrop) out in squared off area - Peonies huge - Delosperma has lots of flowers - Hyacinth done - Primroses done - overtaken by leaves & other growth - Orange Day Lilies crowded out Corydalis - Winnipeg tulips done - Forsythia flowers done but very green new growth - White Rose Bush green & healthy but no buds yet - Stonecrop beginning to grow upwards - Daisies & Dandelions colouring lawn - Blackberries/raspberries doing well. Carpet of new growth under poles. - One of the roses struggling (tallest). No new growth. - Oregon Grape finished. Veggie Patch: - Spinach. Small shoots coming in both rows - all look the same which is encouraging - Rocket, Lettuce, Mangold. Small shoots coming in rows - all look the same which isn't encouraging. - Nettles big & aggressive - Str...

- 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