The early Pandora leeks have germinated at last, they usually do take a wee while anyway but this year they have taken longer than usual, not really surprising with the temperatures that we have been...

Our wind break has taken a beating from the recent weather which had been called the beast from the east, and last week was spent between harvesting blocking seeds and dismantling the damaged, broken,...

Well this week i'm busy skiing in France, but I though i'd post a couple of photos to let you see how much the seeds are coming on and how many trays we have in the tunnel at the moment waiting to germinate.

All the news this week has been about a very cold spell coming our way from this week on, and lasting for three weeks, we now have over one hundred thousand seeds blocked, seventy thousand are in the...

We have now started planting in the tunnels, I have delayed it a wee bit to try and be sure the really cold weather is behind us, even in the tunnels if the temperature goes well below zero the plants...

The weather has been nice and cold perfect for getting out Skiing with Erin and Calum (my 7 and 5 year olds) but not so good for our plants that are planted and the Pak Choy that is still waiting to...

That’s the blocking season started of to a start, for those of you who don't know what that is, it's the way we bring on all our plants from seed to plants ready for planting in the field.

Last weeks deliveries were a wee bit easier than two weeks ago, two weeks ago we would have been better using snowmobiles, Friday was the worst but luckily we got everyone delivered

Plenty snow fell this week making deliveries entertaining, but on the plus side the snow covered the fields, and this made the leek harvesting a lot easier as the ground didn't freeze with the snow...

With the start of the new year we have had our Auld Fergie tractor's diesel freeze in the middle of the field as we were harvesting, and one of our tunnels has a huge rip caused by a storm over night.