Norma asked me to keep an eye on her garden this winter and to cover the shoots with netting when they appear to try to save them from the deer. She told me this would happen sometime in February, which I thought meant close to March. That sure felt like a long way away!

While doing my walkabout the property this week I discovered that there were shoots in the garden! It’s the end of January for pete’s sake!

I therefore scheduled netting for this weekend. I thought my plans would be thwarted by two solid days of rain, but today it’s just overcast with with the odd sunny patch. So, I spent a couple of hours puttering around the garden as well as doing a small job for the neighbour down the hill.

the first mosquito of the season!

it just seems unnatural for stuff to be growing in January!

more signs of life

and yet more signs

puuuurty

deer proofing the shoots

Next step, keeping my eye out for colour so that Norma can see her flowers this year.

Hard to believe winter is already over… It’s actually been over since early December, but I didn’t allow myself to believe it. I think that if we were to have had another cold snap, it would have happened by now.