19th - 25th Feb 2008

Max Temp 15C Min Temp -4C Rain 5.75mm

19th - 25th Feb 2007

Max Temp 13C Min Temp 3C Rain 32mm

After the very cold it has turned much milder but as you can see it is much drier than last year. The big advantage is that the soil preperation is very well advanced but the disadvantage is that I shall start complaining about lack of rain sooner.

The first sowing of Broad Beans didn't germinate well and the second sowing are much better and will very soon be put out in the cold frame. The onions, germinated before being planted in seed trays, are doing well. The chickens will be moved off the veg plot in the next week so the ground can be got ready for the potatoes.

I am waiting for the manure to arrive in the next day or two and the huge bale of straw is already here.

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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet