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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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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...