Sunday 15 April

• I've just had a delivery of a little mulberry bush - only a few inches high. It's for a pot and should be fruiting next year. I've always fancied a mulberry - but in my imagination it has been a tree in the middle of a huge lawn! I've potted it up into a bigger pot and put it in position.
• Yesterday I also put out the Babington leek (you don't pull it you cut it, and it spreads), the welsh onions, and a birthday card which has seeds in the papers (no idea what flowers they will burn out to be.
• I've moved a compost bin, getting 3-4 buckets worth of compost for the tomato/courgette bed in the process.
• My first picking of rhubarb today. Nice juicy stalks. Because of cold and/or dry springs I haven't had good rhubarb for years. I made a crumble.
• My cranial osteopath thinks the twinges in my knee are a touch of arthritis. She has given me an exercise and I've been looking in my herb books. Deciding to try celery, ginger, lavender and rose to help it (not all in the same application!)