I always regard the Easter break as the start of the gardening season which makes sense given the pagan origins of the festival. Yesterday i went to the homebase garden centre and purchased some supplies for the year and today i got down to work. I turned my compost and riddled the finished stuff into one of my raised beds. I planted broad beans, set slug traps and set in sticks to protect from birds. I also finished hacking down a blackcurrant bush and various entangled branches of something with thorns that i don't know what it is. I'm sore and tired now but pleased to have got off to a good start.
