At long last the Cucumber tunnel is almost ready to start growing Cucumbers for harvesting.

This year we lost most of the crop, right at the start.  with a very late and very...

At the start of the planting season it was wet for weeks, and we had all our cabbage plants for the season desperate to get planted.

After waiting and waiting for better weather to arrive, I...

 All the brassicas this year has caused us problems, well not the crop but pigeon problems.

Usuallly, we take the fleece of off the crops, weed them with a machine then go over with the...

Last week was a week of harvesting and weeding.

We now have my home made bed weeder out in the field, and it will be in here working for the next couple of months, with three people on board...

 That’s the courgette harvesting started ; this job makes it really feel like summer has arrived.

This week we are going to take all the fleece of off the brassicas again, brush weed...

Last week it was time to get the fleece of off the brassica’s plants.

It’s been on from the day we planted them, as brassicas plants are pigeon’s caviar, and they could wipe...

The first job we had to get done last week was planting the squash plants, with all the leeks at long last planted, the squash plants are the last to need planted.

So at the start of the week...

At long last we have all the leeks planted.

At this time last year we had already started bed weeding, so that just shows how far behind we are.

Well I’m really glad to see the end of May, and the weather it has thrown at us.

Last week we had a week of downpours in between the sunshine.

By the end of the week the field was...

Last week we almost got a full week of dry weather, so we managed to get on with more planting in the field.

It’s been a very frustrating stop, start to the planting season this year.