It’s an annual feeling of relief: suddenly the sky is blue and despite cold nights, the sun has been out most days.

Buds are opening on our fruit trees at London Rd Station. Last week, we started pruning our crazy overgrown plum tree: this should be done when the tree is coming into leaf. I think I may have jumped the gun a bit: we have blossom but not much in the way of leaf. However, the plum tree has never really fruited well and it’s currently shadowing the rest of our edible garden. So reduced it must be …

We also sowed some lettuce seeds in one of our inherited containers and planted a handful of Sarpo Mira potatoes in the bed by one of our apple trees. It’s the shadier area of the plot but potatoes have thrived in the raised bed opposite which is no more sunny. And courgettes have germinated after a few days in my sunny window.

Meanwhile the shady garden is growing well – it’s at its best in Spring – enlivened by daffodils and magenta primroses.

The daffodils in the platform planters, meanwhile, are already over – difficult to know what we can put in at this stage that would be bright and colourful. We’ll probably just need to wait for summer planting now. We can think about that at tomorrow’s session. I suspect we’ll also be doing quite a bit of watering.