I missed writing the newsletter last week, it had been a very busy week.

And again this year we have our lodger and her family back in the tractor.

Every year there has been a pied...

Last week we did get the onions planted.

One problem we were having, was getting three people to go on the planting machine, it was getting a bit worrying.

But right at the last minute...

At long last the onions and leeks are ready, and big enough, that we can start planting them out in the field.

So the plan for this week, is to get out in the field and get the planting under...

This week I got all the beetroot and swede seeds sown.

We always leave them until May to direct sow in the field, when we get to May the soil temperature should be higher and the seeds will germinate...

There has been a job that has been in the back of my mind for a few months now, and it was needing looked at.

I have been looking at buying a camera guided weeding machine for the fields, for...

This week I went to the job of replacing the bed former blades, it’s not the best job in the world, so one job I have kept putting off, there are 68 blades to be removed and replaced, each nut...

 Wow what a difference a week of warm weather makes for the plants planted and seeds blocked in the trays.

The onions have taken on a huge growth spurt, and half of the leeks...

That’s all the onions and Leeks finally blocked, a total of twenty thousand seeds.

This week Rab will make a start on all of the brassica’s crops.

Then it will be onto the...

 It has been a cold week,  some mornings with frost and even a couple of days with snow.

Not the best temperatures for the plants that we have planted or the mixed salad...

 It was another good week, with the tunnels now all finished.

It wasn’t just a job of re sheeting, the three tunnels that had their polythene ripped off, we also had...