Early Spring Patio Garden

Early Spring Patio Garden
Originally uploaded by travelling at lunchtimes

This is a quick update to show how the great weather we've been enjoying has progressed the garden.

Happy Easter

This Easter, I decided that my craving for chocolate was not going to dictate our purchasing decisions. I wasn't taken in by the chocolate eggs in the Co-op cleverly wrapped with marketing which shouted about their lack of excess packaging and decided to do something actually connected with new life with the seasonal budget. It's not rocket science to realise that we - in the priveliged first world - should be aware we need to take responsibilty for the miles our food is transported not just the packaging it is wrapped in. And support the sort of community projects that train the poor in Africa in ecologically viable subsistence faming.
So, instead of buying Easter Eggs we made a donation to "Send A Cow" and received a:

Sometime soon, I will post the photos I tooko of the steps we've taken to get our "Send A Cow" Save Our Soil Bag garden set up. As usual, I had to restrain myself from planting all the seeds that came with the kit at once. I am reliably informed the dwarf runner beans won't do very well if they go in before May.