At this time of the year, we always have two tunnels full of blocked seeds in trays.

These are all the plants ready for planting in the field in May.

There are around two thousand trays.                                                                                                  

Last week was a bit of a stop start week for me at the farm.

Monday started of as per normal, loads of harvesting and plans for the week’s jobs.

After harvesting I had to go to Perth...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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.

 

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...