Fruit and veg

Mostly fruit: a few snaps of how things are doing in the garden as we get to the middle of April. The ornamental cherry that looked so nice a couple of weeks back has now gone over - but the good news is that there's plenty of blossom on the plum tree. The branches are pretty well covered in white blossom, as you can just about tell from the picture at the top of this post.

On the subject of fruit, the rhubarb is continuing to flourish:



Also looking nice are our little quince bushes that we've been bringing along in pots for the last couple of years. We hardly got any flowers at all on them last year (one or two, as I remember), but they seem to be doing pretty well this year:

As are the bushes that I cut back pretty severely during the late autumn and winter. The loganberry has put on stacks of new growth on the wall in the back garden:



And the bramble that I hacked back to the bare minimum is also doing well for green shoots:



We've also managed to get some of our seedlings into the ground! Always quite exciting when we get to do that. So some of the sadder beetroot seedlings which didn't seem to be doing so well in their pots seem to like the raised bed a little better:



And the broad bean plants, which we think look pretty good, were also transplanted safely into a bed, courtesy of Ali at Craft Matters the other day:



We feel like we're getting there! If slowly - there's lots to do when there's plenty of stuff to clear, move around and bring along from seed. Busy time of year.