Spring happened pretty smartish in this neck of the woods, transforming the local countryside in miraculous manner, helped by a long period of sunshine through April. and resulting in a profusion of flowers and blossoms, as well as newly-minted light green leaves on the plentiful trees and hedgerows. Bees too seem to have been out early - no doubt the sunshine prompted them, although the nights have been quite cold.
In spite of cool nights though, growth here in this eco organic micro-holding (small smallholding) site in the UK heartlands has been good, with for instance early potatoes, started under cover, quite forward by the end of April. Broad beans too have made rapid strides, coming into flower unusually early before the end of April, to provide the bees with yet more flowers to go at. The germination of the peas though has been more 'hit and misss', with one row failing to show at all -peas can be just that bit tricky on occasion.
The highly unusual worlwide conditions due to the corona virus has produced surreal conditions, although here at the micro holding with quite a bit to go at, the 'lockdown' effect hasn't actually been felt too much. It remains to be seen whether such conditions will prompt people to be generally more aware of nature's powerful 'elementary' forces - some certainly feel that man as 'top dog' has strayed a little off the path of respecting and valuing 'Tao' -an underlying and powerful natural universal 'force' said to strongly influence how things happen. It maybe too that the scientific, logical age has influenced thinking to be too much in the rational vein, then not allowing any more 'holistic' view - ?
