OK I know I haven't written anything for a while. I now know why all these famous authors always say that they have set hours during the day for writing, treating their profession like a 9 to 5 job. It is so easy to say to oneself that tomorrow will be a better time to write a few paragraphs. I wonder if Dickens ever had such thoughts?
(Fame at last....Dickens, writing and myself in the same paragraph!)
When I last wrote I talked about planting my tomatoes. On checking a week later I discovered that two of them had been chewed down to the ground. Groundhogs! People have now told me that while the little beasts do not like tomatoes as such, it seems that they are quite partial to young plants. So a major job has been done on wrapping the plot in chicken wire. It looks quite unattractive but seems to be yielding results.
These are my two remaining tomato plants and the pepper. The chicken wire has now been replaced by wire surround the whole raised bed.
I have planted strawberries. Most of them are quite small plants so they may not bear much fruit this year. I have also sown a couple of small rows of carrots and chives. As well there is a courgette plant and a flourishing clump of basil. In fact the basil has given us our first crop. I brought home a handful of leaves for a salad last week.
The one thing of which I am sure is that I don't have enough room for everything. I'm not too worried about that. I'll wait until everything starts growing and I can always thin the carrots (using the very small ones in salads) and if I really like, for example, the courgette plant I may have to sacrifice a few things to make room for it. We shall see.
Last weekend is what is known in Canada as the Long Weekend. Monday was Victoria Day (yes, Queen Victoria) and it is a National Holiday. It also is reckoned to be the beginning of summer and the best time to plant your garden. So I was back at the historic vegetable beds at Fort York. These are more properly known as the Officers’ Mess Kitchen Garden
We planted all the beds with historic varieties of seeds.
Raising three three mounds to plant runner beans.
I also took a few surplus seeds to grow where my two tomato plants had been.
