It looks like the frosts are over are spring has arrived in a big rush.  It was 34 degrees yesterday and we’ve had our first thunderstorm of the season.

In one month we’ve gone from a frozen solar hot water system to thunderstorms and sunburn.

The good thing about this time of year is that the babies are out in the garden in full force.

The water chestnuts are poking their heads above water, the watermelon are up, and those tomatoes and capsicums I’ve nursed all through winter are well and truly producing.  Best things of all of course, are the strawberries and asparagus.

Those capsicum seeds that I sprouted in the worm farm have become two leaf plants in the garden and look quite sturdy, while the choko vine is already 1/2 metre tall.

Now, the greatest problem will be keeping the water up to the little plants.  They don’t need very much but they  need it fairly often as evaporation is pretty high and usually we are out of the habit of watering the garden as regularly as it suddenly requires.

I am off to build some little shade structures to try to stop my lettuce, spinach and cabbage going to seed quite so quickly, to transplant some very large tomatoes in to the garden from the pots they’ve been sheltering in all winter and to plant some corn.