Well another month has passed us by and we are still awaiting some rain, but as I type this there are a few spots hitting on the window, hopefully it will be a decent rain and do some good. Sally has been busy in the field planting and maintaining the crops, but one of her important jobs has been irrigating the growing crops. The dry season appears to have given us more problems than usual with rabbits and hares, all desperate for moisture, the hares jump over our 4 foot rabbit netting like a horse in the Grand National. The rabbits are not happy with all the grass they have along the A14 and are eating through the rabbit netting to get a more varied diet. We hope to start cutting the first lettuce very soon, which is about two weeks later than usual. We have got lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, calabrese, beetroot, broad beans, dwarf beans, runner beans, peas, parsley, fennel, shallots and Spring onions all planted out in the field, we just need some rain and warmth to get them growing now.
In the glasshouse Toni has been busy with all the bedding and basket plants, we have a selection of basket plants, fuschias, zonal geraniums, osteospermums, helitropes, begonias, trailing begonias and a lot of bedding plants. We have also got tomato, cucumber, gherkins, ridge cucumber, peppers, chillies in the glasshouse and outside we have lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage, calabrese, sprouts, beetroot, chard, spinach, dwarf bean, runner bean and leeks all now ready to plant out. We also have some perennials and hostas.
In the shop we have got locally grown Asparagus, Strawberries, Raspberries available now along with all the usual fruit and vegetables. We now have a new line in Gluten Free cakes which are proving to be very popular. There are also some new jams in the shop, Strawberry, Victoria Plum and Raspberry. So with all that is going on why not call in and see us? We look forward to seeing you!
