Another good start to the week with nice dry weather, finishing of with the end of the week pouring with rain yet again.

But we did get nearly all off the late leeks planted.

 It has been a great week of weather and work.

We now have all the cucumbers in and two hundred and fifty courgettes in the tunnel.

After last week and getting all the brassicas planted, I thought that was us on the way to getting the planting season fully on its way.

But Sunday night and in came more heavy rain.

What a change with a bit of heat one week makes.

By the end of last week, we had all the brassica’s plants out of the tunnel.

A total of twenty-nine thousand plants, all sitting...

With a wee bit of heat this week, the blocked plants in the tunnels have shot on.

They are not all needing to go outside to harden of just yet, but the spring Cabbage, savoy cabbage, kale and...

 

 At long last the weather has changed.

The high-pressure weather system did arrive, bringing dry weather and wind ye ha.

 

That has been another week of sunshine and heavy showers.

At least the heat has got up a wee bit and the tunnel crops are coming on.

We are now playing a waiting game with the weather.

It has been wet and the field is really soaking wet.

We have had another week of rain, plus on Friday morning we had a dump of snow.

This...

At this time of the year, we always have two tunnels full of blocked seeds in trays.

These are all the plants ready for planting in the field in May.

There are around two thousand trays.                                                                                                  

Last week was a bit of a stop start week for me at the farm.

Monday started of as per normal, loads of harvesting and plans for the week’s jobs.

After harvesting I had to go to Perth...