Well, we've been very busy over the past month. We've already stopped two of the box scheme rounds and Miles has been surprised by the numbers who've decided to transfer to his scheme and is finding it hard going making sure everything goes smoothly. Early problems should be ironed out pretty quick once everything becomes more of a routine.

In the fields we've still got some crops producing well, the purple sprouting broccoli is probably our best so far despite the huge amount of damage caused by pigeons, parsnips are putting on a late flush before they go to seed, and we're still lifting leeks, also our best ever producing about 60Kg per week since November.

As well as these over-wintered crops we're still harvesting our salad from the glasshouse and tunnels, and are looking forward to seeing some early potatoes, french beans, courgettes, chard, carrots and celery in about six weeks time from crops already growing in the tunnels. We'll also be planting our cucumbers and tomatoes in a few weeks so should see the first cucumbers in May and tomatoes in June.

Outdoors we've got overwintered onions, garlic and broad beans all looking good, and we sowed some turnips, salads, spinach, beetroot and carrots over the past month which are all covered with fine mesh to keep the pigeons and rabbits at bay. Last week we got round to planting out all our potatoes; Rocket & Swift are our earlies, followed by Remarka, Desiree and Sante as well as some Pink Fir Apple and a few others; these got a good watering over the weekend and hopefully will all grow quickly so they can reach a decent size before the haulms are hit by blight.

This week we're hoping to get some more carrots sown outside as well as our parsnips, and hopefully get some of our seedlings in, we've got some sickly looking chard plants, lettuces, spring greens, summer cabbages and cauliflowers and some early calabrese all ready, as well as some pak choi, kohl rabi and quicker lettuces for planting in a tunnel.