It is not very often I write on here and say the weather has been great and helped us get on with planting, but it has been amazing, great planting weather.

Usually at this time of the year I’m...

 

With all the brassicas plants out of the tunnel getting hardened off ready for planting, the plan was to get them planted this week.

But the weather forecast was looking pretty...

On Monday night the polythene arrived for the last tunnel we needed to re sheet.

This is the big ninety-meter cosy tunnel, in here we are going to plant the courgettes we have in the greenhouse,...

 

April is here, and the blocked plants are flying on.

In the greenhouse we have started the cucumbers, climbing beans and a small batch of two hundred and fifty courgettes for the...

With us getting the two fifty-meter tunnels re sheeted last week, the next job was getting the irrigation sorted out.

After the polythene got destroyed in the storm, it then left the irrigation...

 I’m bit later than usual in writing the weekly newsletter.

If I have time, I will do it on a Friday night or Saturday night, failing that I always do it on a Sunday at some point.

 

Last, I had been talking about we had all our main crop seeds blocked and sitting in the tunnels waiting to germinate.

With the weather being a wee bit warmer, a couple of days...

 We now have all of the main crop seeds blocked and sitting in tunnels waiting to germinate.

We had done all the leeks and onions, and last week we got all the brassicas crops blocked.

These...

 Thats us well under way with the season now.

All the leeks early and late are blocked and in the tunnel plus the onions.

This week we will start blocking salad and brassicas.

 This week we made a start on the seed blocking.

We bring on around 80% of our seeds in seed trays.

Only the Beetroot, Parsnips, Turnips, Beans, and Carrots are direct sown with a...