First harvest!

This year we've started a garden from what can only be described as a field, just under an acre with part fenced off as a woodland area. With some hard work I now have three veg plots to get us started, some containers found lying about the place and some I brought with me. The fruit cage now up is protecting fruit bushes which were totally overgrown. I found some rhubarb which was completely hidden and cramped in an old plastic container (bottom removed) buried into the ground. I rescued what was edible and set it free and will divide and give it a new lease if life at the  appropriate time. 
Yesterday I picked our first spinach and made a pesto to add to pasta and more veg for our dinner. At last some homegrown produce! 
Barry spent the day between strimming and working his way around the woodland, identifying the trees and freeing some more from their plastic coats! We think there must be about 250 trees in there but many planted much too close together and not growing as they should. He found several more apple trees completely hidden. I don't think they'll be fruiting this year but hopefully with some TLC will in years to come. We really need a tree expert to identify them all. We think there might be pear and plum too.
A short dog walk with Reg who was really too hot to be bothered to move and preferred to lie sleeping in the garden or sit watching and listening to the sheep in the surrounding fields!
Had a half hour chat on the phone with a friend from Weymouth who has struggled, like so many others living alone and in a town, during the lockdown. She was feeling much happier now her girls can visit her in the garden. It was good to here her laugh again a bit more like her old self.
Another busy and fulfilling day complete.