The excitement builds!

Wandering around the gardening this morning got my heart a-fluttering as I noticed the very early beginnings of what will hopefully be a bountiful harvest this year.  The raspberries and blackberries have finally had a permanent home for a year now and have had a chance to set down good strong roots so for the first time they're suckering like mad.  The first flower buds are appearing too.  The strawberries are still flowering like crazy and there are tiny embryonic berries where some of the flowers have come and gone already.  The peas that self-seeded all over the garden last year are putting out a good early crop, which is delicious and just enough to snack on as I garden.  (Sadly, not nearly enough for me to share with Sam - oh well...).

The blueberries are looking sad.  They're supposed to be easy but I never seem to be very successful with them.

The first 2 asparagus pea pods!  I can't wait to have enough to cook with.  They are supposed to be an asparagus substitute (handy for people like me who haven't got a space in the garden to leave undisturbed for years in order to get an asparagus crop).  The red flowers are pretty and the plant fold it's leaves closed at night - fascinating!

Don't you love lettuce?  No fail plant.  Just drop the seed packet and they all sprout :)

The first alpine strawberries ripening... Umm... well, nearly the first.  Sam and I ate the first 2 yesterday.  They  are DELICIOUS!  I've ordered 15 more plants from TradeMe.

Self seeded peas growing happily with the sweet peas and the orange-berries

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The cranberries are fattening up beautifully.  Hope we beat the birds this year :)

An unspecified trailing berry that I picked up as a sick little sprout at a sale years ago.  I wonder if I'll get more than 2 berries off it this year?

My first ever potatoes are sprouting happily!