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The Courtyard at La Palmerosa is open for business!

Finally, after the wettest May on record, the sun's out, and it's taps aff friends! 

After two days of hard-core socialising and one aborted country walk, I was up with the...who am I kidding. I stayed in bed until 10am, and then figured I should get up and water some things.

But then I was a busy little beaver. 

First up was planting the sunflowers and corn flowers from the one grow bar that did anything useful.

Up the back where they'll receive benign neglect

In front of those are the three carrots that survived the starter trays, and more carrots just planted - both regular and Parisian, because we're fancy like that. There are also parsnips, turnips, and golden beets.

Today's main goal was to get the tomatoes in the ground, but that needed to wait until Farmer Goth had his first round of 5G installation, so I prepped to make myself feel busy.

Tiny tomato soldiers

Other things that happened today: 

• Putting more flowers into pots. Some more butterfly attractors, some Columbine, the 4(!) Chocolate Cosmos seeds that came in the Very Expensive pack, more violets.
• Some rocket and Good King Henry (trying again) into one of the crates to mix up the greens a bit.
• Another try at the courgette - I think the crate just wasn't in a place where it would get sun, so hopefully it will take, this time.
• A few more radishes to join their friends.

Upon his return, Farmer Goth was informed by Bill Gates how to sort out some sort of Chupacabra Pooping Deterrent System, so here he is sorting that out:

The reception in the back garden is much improved!

All of this was very happy-making, but probably the best bit was getting the tomatoes in the ground. They've been going gangbusters in the greenhouse, so hopefully they'll make themselves right at home in their new situation (further protected from wayward poopers) and we'll have a bumper crop of toms later in the Summer:

Front to back: Liliput, Russian Black, Roma, Cherokee Purple, and Lemon Tree

Really, just an excellent day, overall. I'm feeling a bit more caught up, now. And honestly - I don't know how I managed without a potting bench, before. That thing has made all of this so much easier!

Stay tuned for next week, when we learn whether our security system is up to the task, and Cage Match: Tomato Edition.

All we need now is a kiddie pool...