Now, here's a thing.  I got the date wrong yesterday, but Blogger wasn't fooled.

What's this blogging thing about, then?  We thought it might be a good thing to write a blog with garden news, what'll be coming to the stall at Kinvara Farmers' Market each Friday and other things on our minds.

I like the idea of posting the odd photo too.  I have to do one to see how to go about it.  I'll attempt to do one now.  We were doing things in the potting-tunnel the other day.  In particular, there were some flowers that needed potting-on after the winter.  Some of them are already in bloom.  One of these is the scabious.  

 Scabious fama

I managed to get a bit of compost onto the blossom, but you get the idea.  Pretty, isn't it?

We might have some of these for sale in Kinvara, but we're also going to the Rare & Special Plants Fair, so they could be snapped up there.  The farmers' market is due to start on Good Friday this year.  There's still lots of time to get plants ready.

Today is inauspicious, according to the biodynamic calendar.  We're not exactly biodynamic growers, not even registered as organic, but we have found doing garden work in accordance with this calendar to be effective.  Regarding organics, we don't use chemical pesticides and we do use certified organic composts.  We're careful, thoughtful gardeners, but we'll use something like blood, fish & bone that doesn't carry an organic cert or even approval.  We don't necessarily buy certified organic seed either, but we tend not to use coated seeds or many F1 varieties.

As I said yesterday, there's a gig at Woodville Walled Garden not far away today.  We'll go for a butchers.  Our friends Gert & Elizabeth Stam of Caherhurley Nursery, near Bodyke will be there.  their stall is always worth looking at.

10.06 on a Sunday morning...Time to let the day kick-in.