No, not miniature shamrocks! These are the brussels sprouts sown on 7th march on the windowsill and they put in an appearance on 11th march!  Today the salad onions and the second sowing of peas are showing, too small to take a photo of yet. The leeks sown on the same  day are still shy. We got the bean bed ready on the allotment, dug throughly and  then I dug out a trench down the middle. Into it I put any yellowed leaves  and then a layer of wet newspaper and brought out 2 bags of well rotted organic compost from home. Beans need a moisture retaining soil for the summer.

 I paid a visit to B&Q this morning and got 10x 2.4 metre thick bamboo canes for 5.00e! These are to build a framework for the beans . While there I noticed they have a good selection of  fruit trees in various sizes, not for the 6.99 that Lidl had, they range in price up to around 20e. Atlantic  had a lot of herbs, tomato plants and Globe artichokes on sale.

While replacing some of the autumn sown onions that just disappeared over winter I went back to Ravenscourt garden centre in Kerry Pike, they had one bag of onion sets  left, all of the shallots were gone. The lady serving me said they had never seen such a run on seed potatoes and onion sets, everyone seems to be interested in growing something this year!