Every week and  every day are a weeding day at this time of the year, it never stops, if only we could sell weeds, they grow in any conditions and are everywhere.

Last week we were due to...

My home-made self-propelled bed weeder, has been out in the field working all this week.

And so far, it’s been working really well.

The most impressive thing about it, is that we...

 Last week we had two surprises one in the tractor and one in the planter.

The First was a bird’s nest at the back of the tractor, it has four eggs in it.

A couple of years...

Last week we had a couple of scorchers of days, both days the temperature was around 24. Inside the tunnels it was at the top of the temperature gauge, that reads 50 degrees, so we don’t really...

It’s been a busy week of planting.

We got all the different varieties of cabbages planted, a total of thirty five thousand, these we will start to harvest from around April, and the hardy...

 

 Its been a nice long spell of warm dry weather and we are up to date on the planting.

We are actually ahead of last year at this point with the planting in the field.

So...

That’s the blocking season under way, for those that don’t know what that is.

That’s the first of seeds ordered for the new season, and they arrived at the end of last week, so it’s time to get on with the blocking of the seeds, and get the new growing season under...

Last week at long last we cleaned out the cucumber tunnel.

It’s always one of the jobs that isn’t the best to tackle, but it is better leaving it till all the cucumber plants have...

As I was saying in previous newsletters, my auld Fergie’s engine has given up. After lots of thought on a replacement tractor, I decided to stick with the Fergie, and ordered a new engine, which...