Clocks changed today, to summer time. Hey? not possible – I’m still in winter mode.. and quite honestly.. nature is pretty much there too, ok I guess spring is finally springing.. but only just. Good though, more light in the evenings. I would prefer to stay BST all year round.
Himself got the last of the spuds in today rows of Sharpe’s express, 10 of Valor and 11 of Desiree. Fingers crossed for a nice dry unblighty summer.. as I have just read Sharpe’s Express is particularly vulnerable to blight …*sigh*…
I’ve continued with seed sowing, so far have sown tomatoes (4 varieties), broad beans, radishes, spring onions, red spring onions, corn salad, lettuce, peas , purple podded peas, mange tout, lemon grass, physallis, cabbage, red cabbage, cauliflowers, calibrese, sprouts, parsnips, carrots, beetroot, beet spinach, and chillies.
Sold 6 dozen eggs over the weekend – funnyhow the selling of eggs goes – we have just had a quiet week – no one came, and the eggs started to pile in labelled bowls .. then they all arrive at once – I think perhaps they have worked out it is Easter next weekend. I wonder if we will get more buyers once lent is over? The sold out sign is likely to go up soon – I’m glad we now have a system in place which keeps eggs for our own consumption separate – we would not want to run out Easter ourselves.. but with the hens giving us up to 15 a day, we should be ok.
We’re heading down to Devon this week and I was hoping that spring would have sprung down there! It’s still very wintery in Wales too.
Oh well, we will just have to be patient!
I’m afraid its veyr soggy down here – but spring is springing – primroses out, buds awakening…
Hi, you’ve just sprung forward, while down here at the other end of the world, we’ve just jumped back. It is the start of autumn, and I hope you have a better result with your vegies than we have, most people have had pitiful results with Tomatoes and other veges, as we haven’t had the heat of summer that we are used to. So we have done the positive thing… branched out, and focussed on other plants.
I reckon the answer is to have lots of variety.. something always fails, but if there are enough other things, you still have a successful harvest.. one way or another. – so yeh, you are right.. positive branching out 🙂