Beautiful day today, started off with breakfast in the garden the first time this year.

Then a quick trip to the car boot, again the first time this year. Only a handful of stalls there but I did get some more strawberry plants, one Korona, two Ostara and two Elsanta. Korona is suposed to have fruits the size of hens eggs!

When I got home, after a coffee listening to the birds singing, I finally got the potatoes planted. Thought I'd got way too many but only had a couple left over so they went into pots. I either didn't get as many as I thought, the patch is bigger than I thought or I planted them too close together, probably the latter😁

Meanwhile in the mini greenhouse the earlies I planted in pots earlier  have started to shoot.

And the Komatsuna have popped up through the soil.

After lunch I got creative and made this planter out of an old pallet for the strawberries. The new ones at the top and some that Andrea gave me before she went to Germany and have survived the winter in the bottom. Made the mistake of planting the top row first. Going to do another one for the rest of the strawberries and one for herbs, know more what I'm doing now so they should be easier.

Rushed into Cardigan this morning on the 9o'clock bus because Aldi had this mini greenhouse on offer today. At first I could't see them and was cursing, but on closer inspection I found just one hidden next to the plastic walk in greenhouse. The Last One, lucky or what.

The boy on the checkout very kindly got some string to tie round the box as a handle, otherwise I don't know how I would have got it home on the bus😂. After a coffee in the garden to recover I spent the rest of the morning putting it together. Then filling it up with seeds. I did one window box with chives, garlic and nasturtians, one with Tatsoi, an oriental cabbage type thing, and one with Kamatsuna, a Japanese mustard spinach. I also planted some corgette seeds and peas. All the seeds are quite old so it wont be a surprise if they don't germinate, but I wont have lost anything.

Then as it was such a lovely day I had lunch in the garden, first time this year. Ground is still too cold to plant potatoes though.

On a different note, the frogspawn I thought had died in the freezing weather we had just after it was laid has hatched and there are millions of little tadpoles huddling in the sun in the corner. Funny how the frogs always know when the temperature is going to drop and lay their spawn just before the pond freezes.

The Ice Queen has not been kind to my garden this winter. The Euphorbia's looking very sorry for it's self

as is the Ajuga.

Don't know if the  Bears Britches are going to survive if we get any more cold weather.

The stonecrop in the hanging basket has died, but it wasn' t meant to be there in the first place and there is plenty more in more sheltered places around the garden.

Even the Mahonia is looking sorry for its self.

However spring is fighting back in the front garden, although it is not looking as good as usual. Spring is usually the best time for the front garden but there are lots of gaps and more daffodils are needed for next year.

The Helebores have been a bit of a disappointment this year although this one is doing well.

I hope the weather warms up soon.