Thanks DL,
Death is part of the cycle of life , both of them,, like me have has an amazing life & done all manner of things all over the world .
Neither of them turned up their toes wishing that they had done something that never happened & none of them ever mentioned wanting to do a few more years work .
John was 71 & Bill 76 so they were not too worried at the prospect & eventuality of leaving this mortal coil .
Both Bill & John successfully completed their cycle , they both had grandchildren kids .
I'm quite sure that neither of them would want me wasting away worrying about them either .
Luckily I was able to see both of them a few weeks before their demise.
Anyway that garden of mine .
Things are appearing to be a little slow / too cold at present .
I've got a few score of my bottomless seed tubes sown up with various seeds & I'm starting them off in in seed trays on the heated UV bed in our office.
I'm sowing a few seeds every fortnight to give me contilual crops throught ehir sgrowing season .
I remember the year just after Alison & I got married . I said to her, " Sweet heart can you sow a short row of kohlrabi please ? They are at the front of the shoe box of seeds in an unopened packet ".
I carried on deep rotavating in a foot or so of four year old cow much & straw where the polytunnel was to go .
Suddenly she came up to me , her face beaming with pride at her first time of sowing seeds . " Darling can I have some more seeds please "? she said .
Me ..
Errr yes , why ?
Alison .
I've sown all of the kohlrabi .
Puzzled I asked her to show me where .
There between two long seed labels 25 inches apart were two full packets of kohlrabi seeds.
All I could do was smile hold her hands , then hug her as I explained about placing the seeds about 2 inches apart & at 15 inches between rows and that a short row would be about half of a six foot long row ...... the bed's width .