In other words - "have a furtle".
Oooooooh ooooooooh! You mean, I can furtle NOW?!!!!!!! My husband is always telling me to be patient so for once it looks as if I can do what comes naturally and have a peek!!! We have visitors this weekend so it looks as if new potatoes from the garden could be on the menu plus strawberries are ripening nicely - just enough for a Pavlova methinks! Autumn planted garlic almost ready to lift too. This is getting exciting!!!
strawberries ripening, new potatoes ready to dig (not), garlic ready... chris you are from a different planet altogether
Well, despite all the gloomy frost forecasts we weren't hit quite as bad here - our village lies in a valley and I think we are more protected. Also my veg area is a raised bed with a brick wall at the back of it - in fact a brick wall surrounds one end of the garden completely, so it probably helps to retain any warmth and shelters the plants. I also covered my potatoes (in containers) AND everything else on the raised bed with 3 or 4 layers of newspaper topped off with a doubled over flannelette sheet (no fleece!) and took my pots of strawberries into the garage. MY OH thought I had cracked up, but after all that work I wasn't going to be beaten.
The autumn planted garlic is looking really fat and healthy (tops of plants that is), and OH didn't believe that the strawberries were ripening until he looked at them himself. There are about four which are almost fully red - a really deep red too! Hope the slugs don't get there before me!
Will keep my hands off the potatoes for a bit longer. Just checked on the web and it says that Swift are ready for harvesting 10 weeks from planting which makes it 7th June. As they haven't been hit by frost, I am hoping that they will be ready soon!!!
Tomatoes are another story however - I have given up on them!