24th August

The weather forecast for last week was for rain, and we were needing to get the purple sprouting broccoli, over winter cauliflower and Romanesco planted.

Plus, I still needed to bedform the ground first before we could even think about planting.

But we got lucky, where the farm location is we sometimes miss all the rain,

We are right on the bank of the river Tay, north of us there is a band of hills running from Perth to Dundee, but west towards Perth it is pretty flat, we can see the mountains of Ben Vorlich and Stuc a Chroin which is forty five miles away, not so handy in a beautiful clear crisp winters day when they are covered in snow, because it means I’m looking at them and not skiing.

We can see the rain coming, but sometimes usually when we are needing the rain, it reaches Bridge of Earn six miles away, then turns and heads over the hills heading towards Dundee, and we get not a drop, and lucky for us this happened last week.

We have a fair bit of harvesting needing done every day right now now as all the crops are ready,

So, it is not as easy to get the time for planting twenty-five thousand plants, usually at peak planting time we can plant seventy thousand in a day, but that’s at a time of the year that there is not a lot to harvest.

On Monday after harvesting, I bedformed the ground, on Tuesday afternoon we got the Cauliflower planted, Wednesday afternoon the purple sprouting was in, and on Thursday afternoon we had all the fleece on to protect the plants from the wildlife.

But we had ran out of ground for the Romanesco Cauliflower, but I had my suspicions we might, so we had one ninety-meter cosy tunnel which we had finished harvesting was needing rotovated, so on Friday we got that all done and the Romanesco planted.

That is now the field plants all planted, the only thing left to do in the field is plant broad bean seeds, but they don’t go in until the end of September.