After the Fleece was blown of off the courgette last week, I had hoped for nice warm weather to help bring the courgettes on for harvesting.

But we had a week of wet, windy and not so warm temperatures.

Wet...

 Last weekend the fleece got blowen of off the courgette’s out in the field. And we were pleasantly surprised to see courgettes ready for harvesting. . Not a lot but it’s a start, and...

Over the last months few we have been looking into getting another two tunnels.

But I haven’t been able to get out and see any, with corona virus, and secondly, we couldn’t put one...

Every week and  every day are a weeding day at this time of the year, it never stops, if only we could sell weeds, they grow in any conditions and are everywhere.

Last week we were due to...

My home-made self-propelled bed weeder, has been out in the field working all this week.

And so far, it’s been working really well.

The most impressive thing about it, is that we...

 Last week we had two surprises one in the tractor and one in the planter.

The First was a bird’s nest at the back of the tractor, it has four eggs in it.

A couple of years...

Last week we had a couple of scorchers of days, both days the temperature was around 24. Inside the tunnels it was at the top of the temperature gauge, that reads 50 degrees, so we don’t really...

It’s been a busy week of planting.

We got all the different varieties of cabbages planted, a total of thirty five thousand, these we will start to harvest from around April, and the hardy...

 

 Its been a nice long spell of warm dry weather and we are up to date on the planting.

We are actually ahead of last year at this point with the planting in the field.

So...

That’s the blocking season under way, for those that don’t know what that is.