I hope that you all have had this very welcome rain, it started here around 3.30pm but stopped at 8.00pm. Managed to mow most of the lawn before the rain started. I'm nursing a sore thigh this evening, I am looking after my eldest son's collie that does not get on with mine. They decided to quarrel ...

Spent most of the day strimming long grass under and around the trees in the small orchard, nuisance really since the trees' branches can be reached by the sheep so I don't let them graze it. I had attempted it with a tractor and flail mower but had bent one exhaust pipe and broken another by the lo...

Caught out by another frost a couple of mornings ago, I have now found an old roll of fleece and put it over the frosted potato haulm. I bet we don't get another frost now. The ground is very dry and the flooded moors are now dry with deep cracks appearing in the soil. I pulled a Ferguson spring tin...

Ground here is very dry on the surface, strong easterly wind does not help. I think that I will have to get the watering can out to-morrow, if I feel up to it. I have felt very tired to-day after raking up long grass mowings yesterday. We now need a little rain for the seeds.

Barney

Westie, I just use a mixture, Suttons, Fothergill, Wilko and my local Ag Merchants for items such as potatoes, beans and peas. I used to use D T Brown when I ordered by post.

Another light frost here this morning, at least I had earthed up my potatoes.

Barney

Lovely photographs Geoff, looks a well organised garden, you obviously take a methodical approach. OH, I'm sorry to read about old codger, at least he has a kind friend in you. Had my spring covid jab yesterday and have a very sore arm, does not usually affect me. I think they must have given me a s...

Planted out purple sprouting broccolli plants this morning and sowed a couple of rows of carrots this evening. Yesterday I drove across the moors to pickup the compost I ordered and even that had gone up in price. If food prices also keep inflating, as they have been forecast to, vegetable gardening...

I've seen a few martins ( probably sand martins that nest in nearby reservoir earth dam) but alas no swallows, however I shall be on the lookout. Too cold for me to-day to be gardening, so I spent most of day in the workshop finishing a job that I thought would have taken me no longer than an hour; ...

Planted out a row of leeks I had sown earlier in the glasshouse, they were a little small but hopefully will grow on. Sowed some leek seeds outside and belatedly earthed up my potatoes that were caught by the frost this morning. The frost will have knocked them back but it serves to remind me to lis...

Sharp frost here this morning, has caught my potato leaves. I was warned some days ago about a likely frost but forgot and did not earth up. Still, it is a lovely morning.

Barney

Yes, that was a very interesting post of happy memories Clive. Spent time to-day covering pea sowings with wire mesh and put up bean sticks. What a ropey lot of old canes they were, I had intended to buy a new bundle from my local merchants until I saw the prices of them. Gone are the days when haze...

Windy, cloudy with periodic rain showers and sunny intervals, all day long. Spent day planting out Golden Acre and Red Kalibos summer cabbage plants, I have netted them so I hope it will deter the pidgeons. Noticed bumble bees on the broad bean flowers and my potatoes are now showing, had better ear...

Well, although forcast, we had no rain. I had spent the best part of a previous day machining a part for my very battered but still functioning rotavator, so I gave it a go and although the ground was dry it did produce a workable tilth. I then sowed a row of Kelvedon Wonder peas, not by the more pr...

Cooler to-day, spent most of my time mowing the lawns and then potting on some plants in the green house. Hoping for some light rain to help me rotovate the patch of dried up ploughed ground that is very cloggy and hard.

Barney

A very warm and pleasant day here to-day. I managed to plant out my glass house sown onions, hoed my onion sets and sowed a row of parsnip seeds. Yesterday I followed OH and sowed some runner beans seeds in the green house. Plum blossom has faded, now to be replaced by cherry, pear and some apple fl...