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...

By the finish of last week, we did get all of the onions planted, and we tried to make a start on the late leeks.

We needed five thousand to finish a row, and if they went in great, I was going...

It is not very often I write on here and say the weather has been great and helped us get on with planting, but it has been amazing, great planting weather.

Usually at this time of the year I’m...

With all the brassicas plants out of the tunnel getting hardened off ready for planting, the plan was to get them planted this week.

But the weather forecast was looking pretty...