Weather, Weather, Weather, it’s a complete headache this year.

We have had all the brassicas, red onions and normal onions, outside getting hardened of ready to be planted for two weeks...

Well the broad beans aren’t hiding any more, last week they popped up, and we could see where they were, when we were brush weeding them.                                                      ...

Last week was a week of freezing temperatures. In the mornings it was -5 some mornings then rising to above 15 some days, in the small tunnel and greenhouse, the temperature rose to a boiling 30 degrees.

This...

Erin and Calum are on easter holidays so two extra pair of hands. Fairly helped out with getting extra jobs done.

The first job they done was finishing of the fruit area we have been busy on.

We had a couple of stormy days last week, and unfortunately, we suffered two tunnels getting torn.

 

We are a whisker away from April, and the field work has started.

Last week we got the dung spread in the field, then ploughed.

Then I went over the ploughed field, with...

In the blocking tunnel we have the start of the main field crops seeds germinated. The red and white onions have germinated and up.                                            ...

In November last year, I had bought 12 apple trees, three hundred raspberry canes a one hundred and fifty rhubarb crowns, these were all supposed to get planted before the end of last year, but the...

At long last my new role as a teacher (head teacher) has almost finished, Calum went back to school om Monday, so now I only have Erin.                               ...

At long last the fields have defrosted, and the water pipes have water in them and not ice.