Spring Update
Well, I call it a spring update but it's still feeling like winter to me. What a dismal Easter break we've had? As such, things are a little later on the plot than I would have liked. I have three long polythene cloches to protect my plants. They were over my broad beans and spinach and I've just pulled them off and put them over my first pea (Kelvedon Wonder) seed sowings. After that, I will put them over my sweetcorn which I'll sow straight into the ground. Right hand side of the plot with broad beans in the foreground and peas and PSB to the right I've had a pretty poor germination rate over the winter - I can only assume it's due to the cold and the wet...or a combination of both. I have an unheated greenhouse and the water was freezing overnight in it at times this winter and early spring. However, as always, lets focus on the positives and look at the successes. The weeds haven't started coming through yet and ...