the blue honeyberry,
the japanese quince,
the peach,
the nectarine,
and even the kale!
I've read somewhere that you can eat kale flowers a bit like broccoli, so I'm definitely going to give that a go.
I also picked up a teeny tiny Morello cherry tree at the local poundsaver, which was only £6. Looking at it, it's going to be a while before we get any cherries off it, but it's perking up the shady side of the garden no end until then (it's the tiny wee twig next to the ivy):
In other thrilling news, we had our first half-homegrown salad this weekend! I gloated for ages. Here it is, in all it's glory (and some of a bag of salad from Sainsburys because it needed eating):
It's got home-sprouted mung beans, cress, pea shoots, baby kale leaves, and the tops of my Egyptian Walking Onion, which are a bit like spring onions. It's also got a dressing made from home-made raspberry vinegar and olive oil, and it's the best thing in the world.
I've never sprouted anything before, or eaten beansprouts hardly at all, and they're lovely! The whole thing was lovely, and I am extremely pleased.
Here are my very healthy looking peashoots (another first!):
And I sowed a huge load of stuff - brassicas, roots and onions mostly - in the long beds, after finally digging in the manure (for the brassicas) and compost (for the roots and onions). I got a polytunnel for Christmas, so that's along one edge, so some of each crop should come earlier than the rest, staggering it nicely I thought - and it's exactly the right length, serendipitously.
I just hope the promised cold snap doesn't kill off all my precious blossoms. Fingers crossed!
