Well there is a turn up for the books, the Scottish National Party have won a landslide in the Scottish elections for Holyrood. I had head the polls but didn’t think they could be right though I do support the SNP and did vote for them yesterday after work. Five years ago, even five weeks ago nobody would have thought it possible. Of course now the real work begins as they will have to prove that with the majority they can run the country well and guide us through these difficult financial years. It will also mean that as a nation we will for the first time in our history we will really be looking at our place within the United Kingdom.
Over the next five years we could see a lot of argument over independence. What that would mean, if we could stand, and if we would still be within the European Union. In the past that is one of the arguments that has been used to “bash the Nats” as the saying goes. Of course with this election victory Scots have proved that those scare tactics don’t work as well as they used to. The Labour party tried in vain to raise the fear of independence as they had in the past near to the end of campaigning, gladly nobody was listening. Or at least the majority weren’t.
Enough politics though. My garden is doing well. I gave my plants a feed last weekend and with the rain the past two days they should start to shoot up in no time. My carrots still haven’t show. I planted some more though it could be a bit before start to show. Hopefully sometime this week if the seeds are still viable, if not then I will need to think of something else, maybe another visit to the garden centre. I have to get another tub for some more of my herbs anyway so I can have a nose about and see about that at the same time. I might need more compost for that as well.
If it’s dry this weekend then I’ll get some weeding done around the strawberries. I have a problem with Japanese knot weed which keeps showing its ugly head. I dig it up as best as I can unfortunately when you have it you can’t really get rid of it. It‘s just a matter of keeping on top of it right through till winter. At the same time I have to be careful not to disturb the plants to much. Not really that easy when the knot weed’s roots go so deep, which is another reason you can’t get rid of it.