I haven’t done a newsletter for a few weeks, with us all being on holiday.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and wishing you all a happy new year.

And many thanks for your...

 

 Last week I got a trail blocking tray for our squash seeds.

 

All our trays for bringing ours seeds on are the same size, for all the leeks, onions, Brassicas,...

With all the tunnels fully planted, and just harvesting too be done it is time to start planning the seeds for next year.

Some seeds were amazing well most were, but there is a couple we will...

This week we managed to get all the lettuce, Ruby chard and Spinach planted.

So that is now all the tunnels fully planted for over winter.

This week we got all the cucumbers out of the tunnel and the strings untied and down and the ground cover matting lifted.

 

It is time-consuming job, with each of the two hundred...

With the pumpkin weekends over with, it is time to get on with tunnel work.

We have fifteen thousand spring onions, ten thousand Lettuce two varieties, and five thousand spinach and five thousand...

Our growing season this year has been fantastic.

It was along hot summer with not a lot of rain, usually the lack of rain causes problems.

But we did get the occasional shower over night...

 

Pumpkin time of the year again.

Luckily Erin and Calum are on school holidays, which means we get a couple of extra pair of hands for lifting all the pumpkins out of the field.

Storm Amy arrived, and it was a strong one.

First big one of the year, and earlier than usual, we lost all power around 5pm.

So, we got all the Camping gear out, head torches tent lights...

We are at that time of the year and have our first Storm with a name arriving over the weekend, storm Amy is on its way.