Sowing... Daylight hours are starting to increase as the year progresses and the days are getting warmer, though still as wet! Hence the need for a polytunnel where we live on Bodmin Moor!! We have planted more onions and parsnips this month, as well as peppers and carrots in the high bed - this bed has a cover of plastic which makes it almost like a greenhouse inside a polytunnel.
Harvesting...Vegetables are getting very thin on the ground, though the purple sprouting broccoli continues to give enough for a meal every evening and we have found some delicious cauliflower hiding underneath a mass of cabbage leaves!
Jobs... After some very strong winds we have a polytunnel which has ripped in quite a number of places - the far end was flapping loose and a few 'elbows' have split! We tried clear polytunnel tape to mend the rips but this lasted about twenty minutes - hence the black Gorilla tape - not very pretty but extremely successful!
Comments... The onions and the elephant garlic are doing really well - the bedding from the compost heap is very good at keeping the weeds down and keeping the moisture in - rather like a thatched roof but the wrong way round!
