We finally had some rain last night and I collected a total of 6 litres in all the buckets I’d left out. I went down to amalgamate the treasure into one bucket and found that the fiddleheads on the second Polystichum setiferum have already grown up above the foliage.

The parsnips have appeared in both rows now, but I’ll keep the covers in place for a little while. Hopefully Bed 1 will take off now too, having had a proper watering.