I'm always straining at the leash by the end of May as I have a full greenhouse and want to plant out my tender stuff but know in this part of England I must wait for June. Last year it seemed so warm with a week to go that I planted out my courgettes and cucumbers, and then a late frost came on almost this day last year - the courgettes somehow recovered fromthe damage, but I lost every cucumber! Well, Em & I planted out 2 courgettes, 1 cue and one pumpkin today. Hows that for brave? Well, I still have about 8 courgettes in the greenhouse and 6 cucumbers and one pumpkin, so I'm only taking a tiny risk. I wanted to plant out on Bank Holiday Monday but although it was mild it was so windy they'd have been damaged by that rather than the frost! Now it's just a question of whether they'll get washed away in all this rain - it's been a soggy week! I shall try to plant out the rest, plus the corn and sunflowers next week, unless the forecast is bad. Should be safe by then!
This year I have started a wormery for the first time. It seems to be going well. Emma is excited as the level of "liquid feed" in the base is almost up to the tap. I shall have to make sure she dilutes it well before giving it to my plants! Here is a pic from the start and one from this week before I added the last box to the stack. By the time it is full I should have a box of nice fine stuff in the bottom to use on my garden! Or I shall conclude that I needed to buy a bigger one!
The second photo was before I stacked them back together, in case you wondered! As you see, we are eating lots of bananas at the moment - these are well fed worms! And the wormery is great for adding shredded private documents. Even CSI would struggle to piece my identity back together after the worms have eaten the documents LOL! | 
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