It was such a beautiful day on the plot today, chilly, but glorious sunshine… it felt like Spring And as it felt like Spring, we planted some daffodils next to the compost – they’ve been grown in pots but seem to be happy, they’re ‘Daffodil Sempre Avanti’…

We’d left the sprouts in the ground just to see what might happen as the first lot didn’t really do too well.  It seems we hadn’t left them long enough… the snow and frosts seem to have firmed them up quite nicely! They’re a little nibbled, but they’ll do

Day 1 of chitting!  We bought Swift and Home Guard seed potatoes today, from the plant man at the Victoria Hall in Oakham.  Egg boxes are perfect for chitting… just put the potatoes in with the end with eyes facing upwards – easy-peasy!

Woohoo… after not planting any potatoes this year we dug up 8.5kg today! Last year’s remnant decided to sprout up in our seedbed of leeks, so we have no leeks, just potatoes… can’t complain Tomatoes are looking great, all green so far, but hopefully a bit of sunshine this week will have the glowing red! [...]

Finally planted out the Brussel Sprouts (‘Wellington’) that we bought from Barnsdale Gardens… they’re looking good so far, but they’ve a long way to go before they get onto our Christmas dinner plate! Siobhan has promised to make Beef Wellington (geddit?!) once we harvest too, so the protection from pigeons begins now, with a bit [...]

After our worries about the mildew we were delighted to see the roses blooming so beautifully…

A few weeks back we planted some artichoke tubers that we were given to us by our friend Katherine… This is what’s coming up in the same spot, so we *think* it’s the artichokes!  We really have no idea!

…well, the buds are! We can’t wait for our roses to bloom – this is our Princess Alexandra of Kent from David Austin Roses – pretty pink blooms and a beautiful scent But we’re a little worried because one of the buds (which you can just see in the pic) and one of the leaves [...]