Bank Holiday Blogging

May Bank Holiday and the weather forecast is dire!!!! What a surprise!
I have been pleasantly surprised at how many of you have been coming in and commenting on the website. It is very nice to know you are out there reading this!! You may have been wondering why I haven't been blogging lately - Well, I've had a virus!! Not one that laid me low, luckily (I'm too busy for that!!) but one that took the trusty old computer down. Thanks to Jim persisting and telling me to buy a new one I am now back in communication with the outside world. I even have a fab new flat screen that I can read (even without my glasses on!!)
May has been a busy month for us as you all got out and started gardening in earnest. I hope you haven't been caught out by the late frosts and are ready for the deluge that is on it's way, apparently.
We have noticed a huge upsurge in interest in vegetable gardening this year. We sold seed potatoes for the first time this year and today I sold the last one! Nearly everybody seems to be having a go at growing something! Well done. I hope we have a good summer so you get good crops. Remember, this is England, so if you don't get a bumper harvest this year don't be too despondent - and don't give up!! There is nothing to beat picking and eating your own food and it is great that so many people are having a go.
Lots of you have been to Chelsea this year - lucky you!! I have watched the coverage on TV with interest. Not too much quirkiness or outlandish design and lots of ideas that you can use in your own gardens. Jim, being of fine Irish extraction, is often commenting on "forty shades of green" and this year's Chelsea was full of them!!
I don't suppose you are going to get out much for the rest of the weekend but you can always head for the potting shed and make your hanging baskets ready for when the gales die down and summer arrives!
Happy Gardening!!!