Blessed relief! It was a cool 2 degrees at 6:00am, but now, at noon, it is 15 degrees and feels hotter. At least two people within earshot are motoring around their yards on lawn-mowers.
It was back onto the front step this morning for the transplants after being inside for a few days due to cool, windy, wet weather. They're shaded by an old bedsheet. The cats love to curl up underneath the sheet among the transplants. :)
I planted the dinnerplate dahlia tubers (started indoors) this morning and decided to open most of the milkjugs to expose the transplants to some sunshine. This month's weather extremes left some wear and tear on the cabbage and Romanesco cauliflower. The little flies that put pinholes in the brassica transplants also started to make their mark recently. I pulled out the weak and very damaged ones and put the rest in partial shade near the bathtub. I think they'll be okay.
They seem to like the heat, so I left the Dwarf Cosmos...
...and the Summer Savoury in their closed "greenhouses" for now.
We had some extra Kennebec seed potatoes, so R. planted them in the old wheelbarrow basin and recycling bins.
The garlic patch is coming along! All varieties, including the small "Brown Tempest" rounds (in the white, rectangular planter in the front of the patch), have finally sprouted.
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