What have done towards your prep?

[MaryN]

Well, after last year's success with pickled onions, this year I am planning to grow gherkins for pickling. I've never grown the prickly little things, so it should be fun. I think the lovely weather has brought everything on nicely. The fruit trees and bushes look like being a bumper crop, and my asparagus bed is sprouting well. I now just have to persuade OH to fire up his chainsaw to deal with a dead maytree in the hedge. It will make a nice load of logs for later this year. It seems that there are 101 little jobs to do and they all take an absolute age. Best time of the year.