Last week’s weather was wet and warm, great for the plants in the field, but not so good for getting the over winter plants planted.
But we managed to catch a couple of weather windows...
This week has been a week of weeding in the tunnels and out in the field.
But we did have a bit of a breakdown with the brush weeder.
We always go in front of the weeders on the bed weeding...
This week we rotovated tunnel five and got it ready for re planting.
On Tuesday morning we planted the tunnel with two and a half thousand green lettuce and two and half thousand red lettuces.
This week we took the fleece of off the squash plants; they are looking good but very weedy.
Usually, we plant them through biodegradable mulch film, which helps keep the weed down.
But...
We had another good week of nice dry warm weather.
This helped us get all the brassicas weeded.
The brassica’s plants are big, so they are not that hard to weed, and I have been...
It has been a busy week weeding in the fields.
We now have all the early leeks and onions bed weeded.
The routine from now until around September will be harvesting from 7am, then weed...
June has arrived and brought the desperately wanted rain.
Last week we got a dry day and went through all the leeks and onions with the weeding machines.
This week we could do with going...
The field is now fully planted, with only the later crops yet to go in.
These are the purple sprouting broccoli, over winer cauliflower and we usually plant five thousand kohl Rabi with these,...
Another week of roasting weather, and the plants in the field are coming on great.
This weather let us get the last of the fifty thousand leeks planted.
We then planted a thousand dwarf...
Last week I was talking about the late leeks, we had made a start in planting them.
We got one row done but they were a bit on the wee side, so I decided to leave them for a week to grow...