With us getting the two fifty-meter tunnels re sheeted last week, the next job was getting the irrigation sorted out.

After the polythene got destroyed in the storm, it then left the irrigation...

 I’m bit later than usual in writing the weekly newsletter.

If I have time, I will do it on a Friday night or Saturday night, failing that I always do it on a Sunday at some point.

 

Last, I had been talking about we had all our main crop seeds blocked and sitting in the tunnels waiting to germinate.

With the weather being a wee bit warmer, a couple of days...

 We now have all of the main crop seeds blocked and sitting in tunnels waiting to germinate.

We had done all the leeks and onions, and last week we got all the brassicas crops blocked.

These...

 Thats us well under way with the season now.

All the leeks early and late are blocked and in the tunnel plus the onions.

This week we will start blocking salad and brassicas.

 This week we made a start on the seed blocking.

We bring on around 80% of our seeds in seed trays.

Only the Beetroot, Parsnips, Turnips, Beans, and Carrots are direct sown with a...

Last week there was no weekly newsletter from the farm.

The reason being, I was away for my yearly week of skiing.

This year I went to Italy and Erin was with me.

My first time...

 

 Last week I got the final part of the clear up job on the tunnels that were ripped in the storms.

And it was the worst job.

Cutting all the polythene of and clearing...

 

Last week we spent every day clearing up the tunnel damage from the storm.

We don’t get all day at it because every morning we have to harvest first.

We had three tunnels...

 

They say things come in Three.

Well, we are on two already, and it is only nearing the end of January.

First thing this year was the van engine blowing up, with the wet belt...