It must have started raining about 9pm last night....was coming down fairly heavy when I last looked out before bed. 5mm in the gauge this morning, it didn't seem to come as much as the forecast and radar seemed to suggest it might. Enough though to do a bit of good..with ref the jobs I got done yes...

Carrots sown...Nantes 5, from the magazine... Then I thought, ought to sow just one wigwam of runner beans...you know where the seed was to be found.!..still in its dried pods, in the back room.... The cane wigwam is tucked in behind and right of the carrot mesh rectangle thus leaving a block where ...

I've just sown some more beetroot, Cylindra, Boldor and Bona, in the back garden...the first sow started to appear, under the cages, but then...went... Then I had some packets of carrot seed on the sideboard top that kept telling me that they wanted to be sown.... So I found the cover mesh and have ...

Things have really dried up today... In the back field, the former carrot location, cultivations are taking place. I didn't get to see the first operation but it looks like the straw covered field has been deeply bust through with a drag..maybe with only 3 or 4 big tines.? Then a John Deere with a f...

8C showing on the weather station first thing this morning..

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Likewise, I do like the Hinnomaki red, can eat them like grapes, lovely. but the pigeons like them too....unless netted they are there one day, gone the next with soily pigeon footprints on the leaves and a few lost feathers about.. There is even a gooseberry that shares my surname...I perhaps ought...

2C along by the river, on the way to work this morning. When I had looked out first thing next doors flat roof was frosty white over and the spread straw in the back field was so white with frost that it resembled snow laying. A quick look at overnight temps going forward and they do appear much mor...

I got a bit further with forking and weeding of the 'lost' section of garden today...as far as the gooseberry bushes, which are sadly getting past their best. Need to ponder on a new location for a couple of new 'Invicta'.

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....and to finish the day...it was time for a self inflicted hair cut.!

I'll need to remember my woolly hat in the morning....

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I meant to ask, is the carrot field cleared now, Clive? Yes, Carrot field all lifted...still with straw spread about. Part of the back field now has planning for extension of hardstanding for the agri' linked factory that is on the NE corner. Much as it's good that business is doing ok.. I'm kind o...

I've done a bit more to the almost 'lost garden' middle section on the house side of the raspberry rows today. Started though with a hoe round things in the good bit. Only two onion sets failed to show..so popped two spares in the gap. Early Onward peas are being nibbled a bit it would seem... With ...

I've just deep dug another strip across the back garden...a half lost bit towards the house end of the vegetable area....it missed out on my attentions at Christmas time, hence making for a slow progress sowing of my Radeo peas. Deep digging was required to turn in some 'rubbish' on the top.! Next i...

I saw the first Swallow on Easter Saturday...but only one and hadn't seen it since.
Today, at lunchtime, 3 were chattering excitedly around the sky over the work gardens.

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There's a 20 ton trailer load of carrots sat at the bottom of my garden.....but I still had leeks with my tea. ;) Frosty fern patterns on my car roof again this morning and an amazing low mist looking out across the Fens. Lovely sunny today...warm in that sunshine...but blooming cold in the shade......

Today's little task was to rescue some of dads Tamella strawberries...I had done a similar rescue, maybe, 10 years ago.! but they were heading for lost again.! I deeply dug over enough ground for just 10 plants where ground had become available from the leek patch. I seem to think dad first got the ...