We need rain!!! 01/06/2011

It's been a while since I last blogged, but don't worry we have been busy just I've been slacking on the picture front. The big news is we've had the driest march ever on the back of the driest april ever. So we've mostly been watering, Although you wouldn't tell as we have had some sad news with regards beans which I'll describe in a bit...

As we can see the beans are looking a bit forlorn, in fact this was the second attempt at planting beans and neither attempt lasted more than a week. We need rain!

The biggest success so far; the onions! Here we have Sam looking on with a paternal air although Dave is the one doing all the work...

Success in waiting are the potatoes, we can just see their little heads poking up and Dave is welcoming them with a gentle sprinkle of water.

You can just see on the left the plastic containers protecting the chard from predators, these mini-greenhouses also keep in moisture and warmth, just don't let the plants get too big for them! Th eradishes in front of the bottles have just been released for that reason and look very healthy. Lizzie and Isabel can be seen tending the courgettes which to be fair are struggling, bed 1 not doing so well....