Eventually I managed to get eight rows of maincrop carrots sown. Last year I had the rows 8" apart with idea that this would give me enough room to hoe in between rows and do any thinning that was required. What really happened though was that I only lifted the enviromesh once mid season to thin the carrots and I hand weeded at the same time.
This year I've made the rows are only 4" apart which should in theory double the crop from a given area and I should still be able to thin and hand weed in between them!
Anyway they are now all sown with a sprinkling of sand along the rows, watered and covered. Enviromesh is nailed down over a frame work giving them 2 foot headroom.
I dug over a small bed incorporating manure and planted about 20 sweetcorn plants.
I was having a chat with one of the other plot holders at the greenhouse door when I had to tell him to stand inside for a mo so as not to spook my resident blackbird with a gob full of worms waiting to get to her brood in my shed. Once he was out of the way she flew into the shed and fed her young!