Rhubarb was stewed for pudding here today :) At home the Rhubarb, said to be Champagne, that has been in the garden here of old, is thin stemmed and short but very red (1955 on, I suspect, as it came from my mum's childhood home and in turn from Mr Bourne from whom my grandfather bought one of his f...

Yes, very noticeable how much the things in seed trays had moved on in the back greenhouse this morning... a warmer night last night. I had been throwing fleece over seed trays for a few nights. ...and yes, plenty damp here too. 15mm over night. The puddle by the blocked drain on the roundabout is b...

...and having had a look at the given overnight forecast.!..a quick return to the big garden was made to plant the remaining Kestrel and Nicola potatoes. The ground was already worked and growmore had been applied, so they're in..

C.

Saw a swallow, for definite, this morning, low over the big greenhouse at my work location. Also the red kite was about, now almost a daily sighting. Back home the Rover mower has had a run on the roadside grass and two goes over the front lawn.... ..and then got the Radeo peas sown. Meanwhile, thos...

5mm rain overnight..that was enough to stop progress on the ground again.. I went to Horncastle this morning...to see what I could see...or in fact to pick up some new spec's...not a thing I have had before. Reading was getting an issue, screen work is ok, whilst distance is still good. It started a...

Rather a chill feel to it out tonight....we have 5 hours listed overnight down at 4C.
Mighty windy again today, but a little less than yesterday, and several retreats for cover to avoid the April showers...including a little hail..

C.

Arrived at work in sunshine and blue sky but with darkening sky to the West, half an hour later absolute pressure washer rain... A day of potting and sorting followed...squally showers on and off all day and mighty windy. Saw a red kite hanging into the wind just above the lime tree avenue, they are...

A dish of stewed rhubarb was an element of my tea yesterday ;) You'll run faster on a dish of rhubarb.!! ;) Forecast said it was supposed to be raining already here.....hence my push on with things yesterday but only a few spits and spots..so far. 90% chance of rain on next two hours here...so, yes,...

I had quite a catch up in the big garden yesterday and today, kitchen garden wise. Sowed chard and varieties of beetroot, set up the hoops for the carrot mesh...and dutifully worked the ground in the morning, left it a while, with thoughts of that instruction from JB and sowed nantes5 this afternoon...

One of those days when every job was suddenly workable...but there's only so many hours in a day. ..and time was spent, with an amused audience, coaxing a normally immensely reliable rotavator to perform from its sojourn in a damp corner of a shed... Normally the onion ground will pull down from win...

I had a drive out to Newark yesterday...that tested me, I just haven't driven any distance for ages.. My dear old boss used to reckon that in his day it was 'motoring' and now it was 'driving'....Motoring sounds enjoyable, whilst Driving is blooming hard work... I visited the 55 year anniversary eve...

I've been sorting my prospective beetroot patch today....it had remnants of last years potatoes lingering about in there...and then ran in to some creeping sow thistle roots at one corner... Forked over twice and then put the sharp spade in really deep to severe a few shrub roots that had found thei...

Well, I bought some hot cross buns this morning when down the co-op...haven't had them for years...hope I didn't get marmite flavour..

C.

That must make me an old boy...as I can't remember either..

.. I have just now got two short rows of Bunyards Exhibition pushed in here...

It's certainly a bit all over the place...Roses are a couple of weeks up with level of leaf and ornamental cherry blossom seems well on too.

C.

Convinced that time was racing by and how far behind I felt things vegetable planting wise were, I have just put in 6 short rows of Biztro shallots in the big garden...I pulled a bit of Winter dug ground over yesterday in front of the north wall and miraculously it stayed dry overnight...there were ...