PetraWe had unseasonably warm weather here in Forest of Dean (FoD) last week and it's nice and mild today. It rained last night properly for the first time in a while. Things are waking up and there's enough in the garden to keep us ticking over. The greenhouses are packed with salad greens, many self-seeded from last year. So we have salad greens just about every day. Seedlings are coming along well too.<br> The bees are quiet today but they had a great year and done well over the winter WITHOUT any help from chemicals or sugar feed. I don't treat them or feed them.<br> Last year they swarmed! <br> The willow hedge we put in for a windbreak did it's job over the winter, protecting the greenhouses. <br> This year, I'm back at it (after donating a kidney last year which knocked my growing schedule last year).<br> Last year was so awful for so many growers with the cold summer and record breaking rain and flooding. Here's hoping this year is a bit drier! <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/growyourownfood?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#growyourownfood</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goodfoodcomesfromthegarden?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goodfoodcomesfromthegarden</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/permaculture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#permaculture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nodig?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nodig</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bees?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/willow?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#willow</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/seedsovereignty?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seedsovereignty</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/saveseeds?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saveseeds</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/growagarden?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#growagarden</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goodfoodisnotrocketscience?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goodfoodisnotrocketscience</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/radicalgardening?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radicalgardening</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/resistbigagriculture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistbigagriculture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/soilhealth?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soilhealth</a>