Bulgarian Village Garden

- 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

 - Family endeavour: cutting branches & pulling off cherries. 6 bin bags worth - Disentangled vine from cherry tree & took some leaves for sermichki - Planted: two more mint & clusters of thyme in herb garden - Weeded herb garden & around cucumbers & tomatoes - First courgette almost ready - Blackberries forming, flowers almost over - Berries on Oregon Grape - Added more wire to cucumber & tomato structures & tied everything up. Biggest crocodile cucumber on its fourth line - Attempted to move cat to front door but wouldn't budge

- Cherry & pear blossom finished but cherries already forming - Quince blossom out - Tulips almost done - Two yellow tulips coming - (wild) geranium almost flowering - Spinach coming up - Lilac fully out - Peony balls reddening - First strawberry flower - New nubs all over Scots Pine - Cucumbers ready for planting (weather not) - Maintenance weeding in veggie patch & garlic/onion rows - Took a bag of lawn sorrel Planting: - 3 mint sprouts (front of end row in herb garden)

- First stork - Adding to primrose row - Sweet Violets - Developing Strawberry steps Potting: - Cucumber: Crocodile (14 seeds in 14 modules) - Cucumber: Susuki Midori (14 seeds in 14 modules) - Leaf Garlic (14 seeds in 14 modules) - Alpine Strawberry (0.5 packet in 2 small boxes) Planting: - Mint (0.5 packet in 2 rows in herb garden) - Chives (1 packet in 2 rows in herb garden)