Outside plants are coming on too
Mammoth Red Onions grown from seed sown last December in a heated propagator

Trench celery experiment is working, just remains to be seen if I can blanch the stems ok

Pot Leeks look pretty healthy too

Tomatoes are starting to set fruit and a couple have had the growing tip nipped out

Ridge cukes are growing some fruits too

Things are moving along nicely especially in the greenhouse
Sweetcorn is going for the roof again

Hungarian Hot Wax chillies have got a gallop on this past week

Butternut Squash just starting to flower

Squashes and cukes don't seem to mind you nipping the growing tip out, but they will throw out long side shoots.

Evening all, last year I was invited to an open day at a local nursery/garden centre to be on a " Gardeners Question time" panel, well I must have been ok as I was asked back again today, quite a laugh and we all were able to help and learn something as well, I was the "veggie man&quo...

This is a female Adder https://live.staticflickr.com/4734/39111699922_9306e96dcb_c.jpg Adder2 by tigerburnie , on Flickr This is a Male Adder https://live.staticflickr.com/958/27341720207_0ce0ebb740_c.jpg BM1K7067 by tigerburnie , on Flickr This is a Grass snake(no grass snakes this far north), so n...

Grass snakes lay their eggs in compost heaps, the warmth helps them hatch(assuming it was a grass snake, yellow collar round it's neck?)

Got a couple of Freds books one of the few well known anglers that I never bumped into, him and his brother seemed proper characters I would liked to have met.

I notice some hit and misses with seed and not just those with the magazine, some suppliers seed is less reliable, of that I'm sure, there are some I no longer buy, especially ones in food shops/supermarkets.

We seem to be having a good year inland with bird numbers, it's the coastal ones that seem to be suffering with poor chick numbers.

My harvest looks less this year, the June drop saw a larger than usual amount of fruitlets fall off

Female Siskin

A Jenny Wren

Thanks for the kind comments, I think Voles are prolific in most areas, we have a lot of predators like Owls and Kestrels that eat a lot of them.

Raining today so after checking the greenhouse I headed out to the local forest
Red Squirrel

A Bank Vole

and a Great Spotted Woodpecker, this ones a male

everything was a bit wet and bedraggled

A few flowers