New season...

I got my purple onions in after the bad start yesterday, I should have been more patient, by late afternoon the ground had thawed and was in perfect condition. I will plant the garlic cloves today perhaps a few shallots. In the sunny window three kinds of tomato seed are awaiting germination. Cornichon and patisson,melon seed too. Last years aubergine crop was a big success so we'll have plenty more of those this year. The fresh aubergines were delicious. the excess at the end of last season was turned into an excellent brinjal pickle. It ran out way too early. So what else is new? A little clump of primroses are blazing bright yellow, they were salvaged from a ditch last year. Anne-Sophie's collection of flowers are thriving.Tulips are showing their leaf tips. some of the daffodils are budding well. Pansies are beginning to flower in spite of the occasional deep frost.
We have just become the proud owners of a small myrtle bush. That will be brought on in the first year to take cuttings. Same again with the plants we grow from them. within two years we will have the beginning of a small hedge. Our Blackcurrant cuttings, from sticks given by a neighbour are now twenty healthy bushes, this year will be their first season of fruit. The many branched redcurrant bush has been reduced to a single standard, the sticks are busy developing roots , two dozen potential bushes in all.
Our freezer stock is holding out well.Broad beans and fully matured runnerbeans, carrots, washed and sliced, peas , several kinds of squash and cherry tomatoes. Oh I forgot the coco beans. This is the lean part of the year, between seasons, we still have onions shallots and garlic from last year and there are still potatoes in the dry store. Dry beans in abundance here, some will surely get eaten, with lots left over for sowing this coming year.
There is more than I could possibly write up in one sitting, I will save it for later. This here keyboard pogoing is delaying the garlic. More later.