Hello everyone. Apologies for not yet catching up with the thread. I've had a few months away from the thread over winter although have been popping up to my plot every so often to keep an eye on things.
The weather hasn't been great and apart from overwintered broad beans, onions and garlic I have very little growing. The beans are doing ok although 5 were eaten and the fleece cover was ripped to bits in the bad storms. I replanted the 5 missing beans today,, they will probably catch up once it gets warmer. Onions and garlic are looking very good so far, rhubarb is sprouting (no one at home is keen on rhubarb but I like it in pies or crumble, also rhubarb vodka!) and my currants have some buds. I cut back all of the autumn raspberries and tightened the wires on their stakes so they are also looking good with new shoots poking through. Quite a lot of my little Mara des Bois strawberries didn't survive the winter but hopefully a few will hang on in there & put some runners out.
Most urgent though is the shed. It is barely hanging on, the badly rotted wall was hit very hard by the winter weather and is crumbling away. DH came to have a look at it with me and we've decided to scrap it and buy a new one. There's just too much work involved in saving what's left as the floor & one long side wall need complete replacement I clouding the uprights. Also the roof although now watertight was previously badly bowed by leaks so needs to be replaced really. And the entire thing has to come off the paving stone base so that I can dig the comfrey out which is lifting it up.
So my next big job is to empty the shed & find somewhere secure and dry to store my tools, bits & pieces and I can then get on with taking the shed down & sorting the base out. I think it'll be great when the new shed is done & dusted but it's a lot of work first and I need DH to help me with the heavy bits.