A beautiful day and kids released the ladybird

What a beautiful day today!

Phil has finally managed to get some glass in the greenhouse, just the roof but it’s a start. It’s second hand (maybe even third or fourth hand) And the last owner seems to have cut the glass to size, every single piece of glass is a different size so it’s like a big jigsaw puzzle. There also seems to be too many pieces of glass, so it’s taking longer then expected.

The ladybird had fully grown, And the kids released her on the strawberry patch, we hope she sticks around the allotment.

There was supposed to be quite a few ladybirds but only one seemed to hatch and grow (one is better than none). However when we took the pot home it’s now full of tiny insects, so either lots of tiny insects crawled into the pot when we had the lid off (which was for only one minute while we let the ladybird out) or the heat from today has helped the other ladybirds hatch. We are hoping it’s the second and the lonely ladybird will soon have some friends.

The kids had fun watering and we took a nice walk around the plots. I managed to plant out some sunflowers and more marigolds, And did a bit of weeding.

Phil is off tomorrow and we hope he gets a bit further on the jigsaw puzzle that is the greenhouse glass, wish him luck.