Last year at this point we had just started planting in the field.

We blocked all the seeds at the same dates as we did last year, and the plants are looking great, but they are at least a couple...

At long last we got the tunnel sheeted.

On Monday we had the digger in, so we got the trench dug around the tunnel.

We dig a trench around the tunnel for the polythene to get earthed in,...

Last week I had mentioned that we would be planting five thousand lettuces, in the same tunnel where we had planted the pak choy.

But I have put that of for a week, the week I planted the pak...

It has been a warm week with temperature in double figures, which heats up the tunnels nicely.

We should be harvesting salad bags in the next couple of weeks, plus ruby chard, and spinach, and...

This week I got all the blades of off the wee rotovator that the Fergie uses for rotovating the tunnels.

It’s not the best job but luckily it is only every couple of years that they wear...

The cosy tunnel that has been fully harvested,  this week I went through it with the discs which helps to get the stalks and roots all chopped up, then we will leave it for a week for them to die...

March is here already, and the crops we planted in the tunnels for over winter are starting to come to life and grow, amazing what a wee bit longer daylight and a small rise in temperature...

There was no weekly story last week as I was away in Italy skiing with Erin and Calum.

We had a fantastic ski holiday, and it was Calum’s first time abroad and on a plane.

The cabin...

It has been a wet and windy week, perfect weather for making a start on building our shed.

We had to dig eighteen holes three feet deep for the posts, and the ground was just gutters with the...

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about tunnel two needed some repairs.

The polythene was ripped last year, and we done a patch repair just to save the spinach and ruby chard.

It worked...