Get out the Champagne and Cigars

Exciting news we will soon be hearing the sound of tiny wings. Blue Tits have decided to set up home in the bird box which we put among the plum trees a year ago. We stood and watched for ages as mum and dad went back and forth with nestmaking stuff, will try and get some pictures but do not want to spook them.

We agreed to go to the plot on Saturday whatever the weather as we were getting very restless and felt that we were falling behind with the work to be done. We arrived at 8.30am and the sun was shining and after some recent rain it was so easy to hoe (hoe hoe) and weed. We pulled a few cabbage and put in our broad beans and some red onions.

The herb bed is coming along nicely and with the recent rain and milder weather the garlic and onions look really healthy. The plot is beginning to look cared for again and we hope that we can put in our seed potatoes this weekend.

Please Help

I would really like to add links to our blog but for the life of me I can't work out how. So many people have us as a link that I would like to put them on our site .BUT HOW DO I DO IT ?

I am probably being very thick here.

We went to Coolings Garden Centre this morning to buy some more seeds. We bought some on tape, has anyone tried them? Meant to cut down on thinning, will give them a go. We also bought a parsley plant and some more Daliahs.

Coolings are selling plants called " Green Goddess" which are meant to be OK in a water shortage. They have bought a Green Goddess fire engine to promote these plants and have it parked in the centre of the site.

Cooling are great, in the three years that we have been buying from them we have not had one failure.

Brass Monkey Sunday

Our first time to man the trading shed this year. We tried to keep warm by weighing and bagging fertilizers, bird food etc. We had three visitors all morning and only one of them bought something, three bags of stable manure. Our site took over the running of the trading shed last year and we are ( well Reg mainly ) trying to smarten it up a bit. We are just beginning to show a bit of a profit which will go towards the upkeep of the plots.

After closing we meant to do a bit of hoeing but the wind just cut through us so we called it a day. I don't mind the cold but the wind really whips across the site at times. Our garlic and onions which we planted last year seem to be doing really well and I gave them a scattering of chicken manure pellets and will now leave them to fend for themselves until harvest time.

Felt really bad on the way home as we had to buy some veg, I really must learn how to store more of our stuff .