It’s been a busy month of waiting so far.  There has been lots of mowing, strimming and sowing done, but lots of waiting too.  We are still rationing eggs as the new hens refuse to commence laying.  It must be any day now.  I cannot wait!  So what’s been occuring in the garden?

• Chilli’s (serrano, cayenne, Numex Big Jim and Hungarian Hot Wax) sown in the cold-frame.
• Cherry tomatoes sown in the cold-frame.
• More carrots, peas, French beans, spinach, mooli, beetroot and rocket sown in the veg plot.
• Compost heap covered in a tarp and left to work its magic for a while.
• Compost mulch applied to all the flowery bits of garden.
• Held the great Marmalade Taste Test and decided that lazy marmalade making is the future!  More on that shortly.
• Waiting for the sauerkraut to finish fermenting so I can see if it’s nice or not.
• Waiting for the olive oil soap to harden so we can see if that’s nice or likely to be delegated as laundry soap only!
• Oh and we have been enjoying the occasional calçotada outside, when the weather’s still too.

Mostly though I have been checking the daffodils daily and can at last report the first flower has opened!  This may seem a rather pathetic observation to you.  But after four years of failing miserably to get any daffs to flourish, this year BigD has finally succeeded.  A few bulbs bought at chrimbo and chucked in a pot have withstood extreme wind to, at last, give us a little pot of Wales!

I’m not normally a particularly patriotic Welsh Welshie (although I would always defend the Welsh sheep as being the best, woolliest and fattest sheep in the world – Spanish sheep are very scraggy and goat-like!).  I can’t speak the lingo and only know the chorus of the national anthem.  Growing up in ‘The Port’ was not like growing up in Wales at all really.  But today I felt smiley and content seeing our first daffodil bloom.  We are definitely having leeks for supper tonight!  And, next year we’l be planting lots of daffs in the grass by the hen coop so next year’s picture should be much more impressive!

‘Da bye chan ‘n araul Hisbaen!’

Adios amigos

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