Put my spuds in last week but due to the rain I didn’t dig my usual trench just dug holes each about a spade square and dropped them in. I have only started my indoor seeds of tomatoes, chilli’s and cucumbers so far. Need to start my out door crops soon. One thing I have noticed last year and this is how bad compost is these days now they have got rid of peat. I have been getting poorer germination these days. Spent today digging tree roots out of the strawberry bed, just need to refill it now.

I had a dry day 3 weeks ago and pulled the lawnmower out the shed to give the grass its first cut of the year only to find it finally had given up the ghost. I bought a new one but I have not had another dry day since so have still not used my new toy to cut the grass yet this year.

Here in the North Norfolk Alps, temperatures have been mild, but like most places, everything has just been water-logged.

Everything in the greenhouse doing well, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergine, courgettes and chilli plants are all looking healthy.

But stuff i had over-winter in the beds, garlic, onions, carrots and broad beans, all not doing much really, i think they were all too wet for too long, but will see if they do anything as it (fingers crossed) dries out a little.

Potatoes went in this weekend though, Maris Piper and Charlottes

First batch of mange tout are already in the ground and climbing, with a second sowing due. Toms grown from seeds that MrsP kept from a fancy black variety she bought in waitrose are hardening off and standing up to the wind pretty well. Courgettes, Runner & French beans just germinating and I’ve sown a load of parsnips but from old seed so I’ll probably only get a handful.  Can’t move for ornamental stuff either, mostly in modules at the moment so I’ve got a monster potting on job sometime soon.

I sowed my chillis for the year and not a single one germinated after 10 days, so sowed a second lot and not a day later the first lot sprouted. Going to a be a spicy year!