I had said last week that we would have a new van driver called Scott taking over Andrew’s deliveries, well he decided he did not want the job after being on the van for two weeks with Rab...

This week we have a new van driver starting.

Scott is taking over Andrew’s deliveries, and was out with Rab the last two weeks, learning where the deliveries are, and how our delivery books...

 One job we need to do next week is plant the tomatoes and cucumbers, they have shot on in the greenhouse and are ready for planting.

I already have the tunnel rotovated, we now need to...

Another good week of weather and more planting done in the field.

We now have all the early leeks, and all the onions planted one hundred and twenty thousand plants.

With the weather heating...

Ye ha finally we started planting the field, three weeks later than last year.

But on looking back in our book that we keep our seed records, which we keep for years, this year we started at...

At long last we have taken the blocked plants pout of the tunnels.

Last year we had already started planting.

We now have all the main brassicas crops out; the leeks and onions will be...

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...