Finally, an update.

While we spend hours harvesting during the winter months, nothing photo or comment worthy seems to happen, so it's hard to find enthusiasm to update this. Then, suddenly it's spring, and there's barely a moment to think.

This year has gone well so far, until last week we were suffering from the lack of rain, but have been able to water everything in as we plant them so almost everything has established satisfactorily, and the benefit of this dry weather is the lack of slug damage.

We're starting to see some of the outdoor crops producing, and it's only another month until we should have a very good selection again, with the peas, broad and french beans growing well, plenty of courgettes on the way, a good variety of lettuces, soft fruit is ripening, and it's not too long until we see the first of our tomatoes.

We've also been planting thousands of leeks - double last year's quantity, which was a bit rash seeing as we're trying to do this with no extra staff, but nearly all of them are in the ground, along with loads of cabbages, calabrese, swede, sprouts, squash, carrots and parsnips for the autumn and winter.
This week saw us planting our sweetcorn, tendersweet varieties from Tozer seeds which have produced delicious tender cobs for us in the past. Hopefully we'll get a warm summer this year and will get a decent harvest.