First Signs of Spring?

The last couple of weekends I had good intentions of doing loads in the garden. However, with various other things going on it didn't quite happen. Last week I finished of mulching the veg plot. I then planted some garlic cloves. Technically I know I am either too late or too early. The best time is autumn to early winter, but the frozen ground prevented that this year. The next best time is early spring. Clearly, it is currently neither of those, but I thought it would give it a go anyway. I have read that a frost helps the garlic to split into individual cloves, and as frost was forecast, I hoped that this would do the trick. Sure enough, the next couple of nights were very frosty, so hopefully that should help. This weekend I had originally hoped to do some repairs to the greenhouse that is largely held together by plastic sheeting. However, as we have had near gale force winds I decided that any attempt to do this would be doomed to failure. Instead I chopped a few logs to supplement our dwindling stock of firewood and did a bit of tidying up by the veg plot before I decided to call it a day, otherwise I think I may have been blown away! I decided that a spot of decorating was a far safer option. During the course of my brief pottering about I spotted a few signs that maybe, just maybe, spring might be on its way.

This has felt like a very long winter, so maybe it is at last coming to an end and spring may at last take over. This will of course mean frantic seed sowing, and in preparation I bought my first batch yesterday in readiness and hoping that I will soon be able to get them started.