A Walk Through the Spring Garden

This is my favorite time of the year in the garden. Although we are not yet reaping the benefits of what we have sown we sure are living in splendor. The apple blossoms are in bloom and everything else seems about to follow suit with buds exploding everywhere. 

The babies are not so cute anymore sadly, all their nice soft downy is falling out making space for little feathers. As ugly as they may be they are still very sweet. they are still too small to live outside so I have them in my laundry room under a heat lamp. Not the most ideal place for them but I fear the barn house won't be safe enough as our neighbors dog roams about the place and I worry she might just fancy a little feathery snack. Evie and I have them out in a run during the day while we are gardening and the simply love scratching about in the dirt looking for bugs.


Potatoes have now broken the surface which I am happy about. I've done something different this year which I don't know will pay off or not... I chatted supermarket potatoes... I just hate the waste of buying seed potatoes as here in France they come in a crate and I simply don't have the space or the appetite for that amount so each year they go in the bin. Im trying a few varieties this season. Red ones which are my personal favorite so I hope that the books are wrong and they work out ok.

My first strawberry patch has been planted out too which is great. I have so many plans for these little beauties this year...
im wondering though whether I need to get another patch down as we are definitely going to need a good amount.

Cassi Update

Last year I posted about our baby goose called Cassi. I figured I would give an update about how she is and to show you how much she has grown.

The person who told us to get a goose had told us that they were clean animals, this we found to be very untrue haha! She is a complete mess! We have a pool she likes very much and spends the summer around and in it which means lots of brown mess for us to wash away every morning.
Saying that though she is lovely and so we don't really mind. As yo can see she has grown very big now and very beautiful.

Its winter which doesn't bother her at all but she hangs around by the front door hoping for snacks to be passed out to her.

One worry is that she's a little lonely as she is always where we are so I think we will be buying a new little friend for her this spring :)

The Owl in the bedroom

Thought I would post this as I thought it was rather different. 

We heard clattering in one of the empty bedrooms upstairs and when we went up to investigate... Look who we found!! 

We opened the window and she flew straight out, so graceful :)

Cassi the goose

Introducing Cassi the goose. She cost us 1.80€ at our local garden centre.

Shes only small but already holds a big place in the families heart. Shes very naughty though. As I was planting out ll of me leek sets in the garden she was following me and gobbling them up!!! I now have to be careful when shes out because she knows where all the good veggies are now!!!