Well its been a week of fantastic weather, with temperatures reaching 23 by Friday, and over the weekend, and the crops in the tunnels are thriving, this week we will be harvesting our over winter trial...

This week the weather stayed nice and dry, and I have now got all the field Grubbed, and then over it again with the triple K,  it’s now nice level and smooth, and is now ready to be bedformed.

Bedforming...

The heater in the greenhouse is still working well, this week it was 6 degrees outside, and in the greenhouse it was a cosy 18, we now have two hundred French beans sown, and in the greenhouse.

Last week I was talking about the green house we were given for free, if we could dismantle it, and take it away the next day.

I was also saying that we had sown Chilli seeds, and they had already...

On the 4th of March I was talking about the Leeks had germinated, and were coming on well.

We have now blocked off all the Leeks and Onion seeds, a total of two hundred and forty thousand seeds,...

In last week’s newsletter, I was talking about hand weeding the tunnels, and no matter how much hoeing you do, we always have to hand weed, and with the heat of the tunnels, and the constant watering,...

 Last week I had been talking about seed germination, and that the Leeks and onion seed’s take forever to germinate. Well with all the unseasonal temperatures that we have been having, some...

 As I was saying last week, we have loads of seeds in trays that have germinated, and would be needing some water, I did get the pump re located after our pump shed got flattened, and all the tunnels...

 Not a lot of  news for this week’s newsletter, as I was off with Erin and Calum on Wednesday and Thursday with school Holidays.

So on Wednesday, we made the most of the poor...

 

With the weather last week being a bit milder, the first job that was needing done, was to water all the trays that Rab had sown with seeds.