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...

On Monday night the polythene arrived for the last tunnel we needed to re sheet.

This is the big ninety-meter cosy tunnel, in here we are going to plant the courgettes we have in the greenhouse,...

 

April is here, and the blocked plants are flying on.

In the greenhouse we have started the cucumbers, climbing beans and a small batch of two hundred and fifty courgettes for the...

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...