Too much to do!

It's the big push now, clearing beds and sowing seeds.  My kitchen windowsill is full, as is my patio table and cold frame.  The snap peas and mange tout peas are just sprouting up in the garden (growing where I've just cleared away the remains of the Brussels sprouts).  I bought four asparagus crowns and a dozen shallot bulbs, along with two more bare root fruit trees--a Stella cherry and a Conference pear--all on the cheap from the discount (grocery) shops, so here's hoping they grow. 

We're gradually working our way down the allotment, with about a quarter of it sown now with various seeds, some of which are growing well;  the discount shallots have gone down, and a sack of sprouting potatoes (given by a neighbor) need putting in straight away.  The husband and son disassembled the house section of the chicken tractor and reassembled it back at home:  it wouldn't fit in the car otherwise, and we didn't fancy carrying it (heavy).  I drastically reduced the size of their permanent yard in order to harvest a sizeable chunk of chicken wire for their tractor;  I'm just starting to put them on their regular garden rotation, and having a moveable shelter for it means they can spend the whole day working, even when it's rainy (we bought another, prettier tractor too, but more on this later).

And I'm about ready to stop buying vegetables again, at least for a few weeks:  we have way too much chard, salad greens (mainly miners and lambs lettuces) and cabbage/kale all trying to bolt.  Maybe not so exciting, but tasty enough and they'll make the first peas and broad beans that much more special if we've been surviving on just leafy greens for a month or two.  At least there are a few spring onions and plenty of chives now to make them a little more interesting.