It only takes a bit of rain , well 22mm already this month, a few warm days and everything in the garden is getting greener and bigger.
The angelica is doing well this year, tall, full of flowers and buzzing with bees. A pity we are not opening the garden for the NGS until July this year. (usually first weekend in June) The flowers will be seed heads in a few more weeks and then need dead heading before all the seeds spread and become an angelica forest next year!
It is also asparagus time and we are picking between 1 and 2 kilos each day. We eat some ourselves, delicious fried or roasted in a little olive oil or chopped up into stir fries.
The remainder we put on our sales trolley which gives local people the chance to buy our organic produce a very reasonable prices and no air miles!
The money raised from the sale of the fruit and vegetables and plants we donate to various charities each year.
We only pick the asparagus for approximately six weeks and then leave the stems to grow and put back goodness into the plants ready for next year. So this special crop is appreciated in this short availability window.