…even if it’s only April. Nature doesn’t care about our calendar. Especially not about folk songs that come from times when the climate was still intact and the trees actually sprouted in May. At the moment it is not April (as it was said in the old days) that does what it wants, but the weather. It’s warmer than ever, and you can’t just watch the grass grow!
In quick succession, all the trees bloomed, as did the barberries and currants, which had barely finished blooming and were already producing berries. Every day brings new flowers – even the first rhododendron is blooming! There are well-developed kohlrabi in the glasshouse and we can already harvest lettuce.
We filled the raised beds with compost and sand, rerouted the irrigation system and grew peas, carrots, beans, parsley, chard and radishes. We moved last year’s leeks to the edge of the beds, and lots of tomato plants went into the glasshouse.
The potted plants also had to come out of their winter quarters – as did the dahlia and canna tubers.
All of this in the short period of the first week of April!