Rain from 10:30 to 5:00 accumulated 12.7mm. Soil very good to work with for the cut and dried flower planting out I've been doing this morning. Keeps going dark but not added any more yet.

Or even your own drainage system.

Dug a 2lbs root of potato Casablanca this morning from 1st February planting in the polytunnel. They aren't flowering yet but we have visitors this evening, hope they are impressed. Haven't grown them before so no idea what the taste is like. PS : they were excellent, better flavour than Rocket or S...

I don't usually use T&M but if you need the odd top up free P&P with TM_TN6887W whatever the quantity. I only have 3 Kalettes come up (old packet) so £1.99 delivered seemed reasonable.

Clive, should have said yesterday, if you are thinking of planting two new gooseberries have you thought of a red one? We have Hinnonmaki Red and it is like having another fruit in your collection, I really like the taste.

What a day all of a sudden 21.9°, celebrated with the first mid-afternoon choc ice of the season and later raspberries and ice cream as pudding. Planted the pea patch this afternoon.

It was my first day of double watering too. I've deployed the potato tent again tonight as it has gone very still and some versions of the forecast say 1°.

Bin day today. We still haven't found a use for these extra food waste plastic bins they've cluttered us up with. With a compost heap and a Labrador the only things that seem to be candidates are chicken carcasses and the odd lamb bone, when we can raise a mortgage, and we haven't worked out a sensi...

Not cheap buying seeds for them to fail, I spent £107 without the seed potatoes. Used 6 companies, in order of amount spent Premier Seeds Direct, Just Seed, Simpsons Seeds, Sow Seeds, Seed Megastore and Simply Seeds. Had only one partial failure in veg seeds that was 3/5 gherkins when I expect 100% ...

Two sore arms here too today, Barney, most be different this dose.

Quite a ground frost last night so I deployed the potato tent, quite a bit of ice on it when I rolled it back but they look OK. Weather station says the air stayed above freezing at 1.2°C. Tunnel said down to 2.3° so first earlies still look happy.

Two swallows have moved into our garage this week. While I moved out of the greenhouse last evening when the heavy rain started to include thunder and lightning, doesn't seem sensible to stay in an aluminium structure.

Only had a ground frost here, 2° in the air. Realised my potatoes were well through under their sheet of almost clear polythene but they weren't brown where it was touching. Pulled it off, added the hoops and put it back as a tent for tonight but just noticed forecast has improved from 0 to 1° for t...

That cat defines relaxed.
How do slugs "know" where to hide? They browse their midnight feast on one tray of seedlings then go and hide in the bottom of another module tray. All those hiding places are definitely the downside of using modules.

Not fit to do anything outside today. Had a potting day in the swaying greenhouse with the blustery cold wind, had to close the ventilator when the hailstones blew in. Tomatoes, peppers and chillis should be settled for a while. I'd change supermarket if they forced me to self scan, we only shop abo...