I put some royal potatoes in 3 weeks ago and covered them with some hard plastic sheeting. They are doing very well and i have taken the covering off now. Got to replace some plants which i lost in the winter. One i bought was a new version of Red Robin, the whole of the bush is reddish so my wife tells me instead of just the tips. The squirrels are back in numbers, while in England saw a grey squirrel and a Green Woodpecker along with a wild deer that had come out of the woods to a tennis court in the back of a house tried to get the camera out back it had seen me and shot off.