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  • 18th March

    Over the last few weeks I have been walking through the winter cauliflower, just keeping an eye on when they would be ready for harvesting

    Every week it looked like they are almost ready.

    And...

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  • March 4th

    I had a wee walk through the winter Cauliflower this week, and they are looking Braw, I had to peel back a few leaves, but the cauliflower is looking good.

    We should be harvesting them in a couple...

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  • 26th February

    Last week we made a start on blocking the onions, we only have twenty thousand of the fifty thousand seeds in, the rest will be in by the end of the week.

    We always do the onions first, followed...

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  • 19th February

    Last week the 10 thousand spring onion seeds arriving, half red and half normal.

    So, we got them blocked and stacked in the greenhouse.

    Before we would never have got 10 thousand seeds...

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  • 12th February

    The seeds we had blocked have now germinated.

    So far, we have, spring cabbage, Ruby chard and spinach blocked they were all put in the greenhouse.

    It is only a 6 foot by 4-foot greenhouse...

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  • 5th February

    Another week, and more storms.

    On Wednesday we got hit with another storm, have not got a clue of this one’s name.

    On last week’s newsletter I had been talking about the two...

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  • 29th January

     Last week was a week of tunnel watching.

    Two storms came over the whole of the country.

    One on Sunday night into Monday morning, and the second on Tuesday night and well into Wednesday.

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  • 22nd January

     

    Last week I had talked about building a new tunnel.

    This tunnel is only going to have bird netting as a cover not polythene.

    I am going to use it only for taking the blocked...

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  • 15th January

    Last year we blocked winter Lettuce and Chinese cabbage and planted them in the two tunnels that we had free, the other tunnels have broad beans and spring cabbage in them.

    We have tried in the...

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  • 20th November

     

    Not much to write about this week, other than it has been wet again.

    There are a few field jobs, we do need to get done, but the moisture is stopping any of that happening.

    One...

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