Nice day to to finish the month

A really beautiful day - warm, with warm wind to help too, but first off I'd like to say I'm glad Sally is on the mend.
On my arrival this morning, I found some blister packs containing some perennial plugs sitting on the bench of the potting shed, so my first job of the day was to pot these up into 3" pots. There were 18 x Campanula pyramidalus which when they grow up should look similar to this.....

Then there were 10 x Echinacea purpurea White Swan which should look like this...

There were also another 6 of the purple Echinacea purpurea. After potting these up they were all delivered down to the greenhouse which is beginning to fill up with perennials for the long borders, most of which are beginning to show signs of growth and will be ready to plant out in April. So at the moment the greenhouse staging looks like this......

The sweet peas sown a fortnight ago have started to germinate too.
After potting these up, I weeded the small bed adjacent to the old summerhouse which is being filled with various bulbs.......

And after this, I returned to weeding the long borders as per previous entries. There are a few plants in flower or close to it at the moment, including the Pulmonaria and Hellebores.......

Most of the perennials are now beginning to push up fresh seasons growth so things are progressing steadily, though I am itching for the daffies to bloom as they look really good in the borders and are a sure sign of better weather arriving.

Anyway here is this weeks photo from the potting shed......

Richard and Sally came down in the afternoon with a present for me - the 4 stroke Mantis Tiller  :-) 

so that will be assembled and given a test ride next week. We discussed the proposed siting of the Strawberry Bed and we look to have settled on the west facing border for at least the next two or three years, when, as well as cropping, we will be looking to increase our stock by cultivating the runners produced. And finally, myself and Sally had a discussion over a nice cuppa about what veg to grow this year, so without boring you with specific varieties, here, in no particular order, is what we have planned.

Potatoes, Onions, Carrots, Leeks, Salad Leaves, PSB, Sweetheart Cabbage, Savoy Cabbage, Brussel Sprouts, Kale, Cauliflower, Perpetual Spinach, Tomatoes, Parsnips, Beetroot, French Bean, Runner Bean, Spring Greens.

Thats it for this week, see ya next week.