A combination of warm sun and cold wind. There are a few lambs and birds are chattering in the hedgerows, but no first flush of weeds yet to signal the arrival of spring garden-wise.

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I'm finally getting to the end of the fruit tree planting: a plum, a gage and a damson went in yesterday. Hopefully the other walnut, a fig and two kiwis will all be planted in the next few days. A minaiture peach which I'd heeled into the greenhouse border is now happily flowering away so I guess that's staying put. Thompson and Morgan sent me some strawberries (Elsanta) I'm fairly certain I didn't order - so I did the right thing and planted them in one of the raised beds in the garden.

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Vegetable-wise it's full time sowing and coaxing of improbably small seedlings. I'm hardening off some lettuces, kohl rabi and radishes. One of my stratified Alexanders sowings has germinated. Which was a suprisingly joyful experience (for me, but maybe the plant too) tempered only by the stubborn no-show of the bulbous chervil. And one of the Yuccas I proudly germinated now closely resembles a tomato seedling...