28th April

It is not very often I write on here and say the weather has been great and helped us get on with planting, but it has been amazing, great planting weather.

Usually at this time of the year I’m constantly moaning, it has rained again.

So far this season it has been almost prefect weather conditions, we have had rain and as soon as I need to bedform and start planting it dries up nicely, then it rains prefect for the plants that have just been planted.

We have all the brassicas, swede, beetroot, carrots broad beans and the flowers already planted.

All the leeks and onions were taken out of the tunnel to harden of.

It rained last Saturday which was great for the planted plants, and yes it went of again and the forecast was great.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t work on Sunday and get more ground ready, as Calum and me were of to Hampden to see our team St Johnstone in the cup semifinal against Celtic.

Calum is 12 and never seen our team in a cup semi, being excited was an understatement.

But I did think the chances of us winning were as good as me being able to plant in a monsoon.

We didn’t win, but the atmosphere was amazing, and so were the saints for the first 20 minutes, we lost Celtic 5 St Johnstone 0.

Calum loved it and it was a great day out with just the two of us, and to make things better the weeks forecast had stayed good.

Monday morning, I got back to bed forming, and we started planting the early leeks on Wednesday morning and by Thursday afternoon we had fifty thousand early leeks planted and five thousand of the sixty thousand onions planted.

This week’s forecast is again looking great forecast is over 20.

The plan for this week is to get all the onions planted, and possibly the late leeks.

The only thing that will hold us up from planting the late leeks is that they are still a bit too wee, and that’s just because we have started three weeks earlier than usual.

So, they could do with another week sitting, but it is dry and if I can get them planted with the planter we will.

The reason the are smaller, is that it takes Rab a week to block the early leeks, then another week for the onions and finally a third week for the late leeks, that is the only reason they might still be too small to plant. As they are the last to be blocked off. As soon as they are planted we will be taking the courgette and squash plants out to harden of I’m hoping the weather keeps playing nice, and we will have those planted in two weeks’ time.