Is it time to worry?

   Well here we are into March. Looking back at this time in 2014 I had tomato plants already potted up. This year I do not even have any germinated yet alone in pots. It has not been a cold winter but it has been very wet and it is continuing to be wet and under feet is squelchy to say the least!
   So what has been done this last week? Once more not a lot. I started to prune a plum tree and did some first aid on a wooden sheep feeding trough. More in hope than anything else I have sowed some spring onion, Little Gem lettuce and Golden Acre cabbage seed in the poly tunnel beds. If you do not try you never know! The temperature in the poly tunnel is most definitely warmer than outside.
   I have pulled out my sowing/planting plan of the vegetable garden and I am now looking seriously at trying to do something with the plots where the onion sets and shallots need to go. If I do not do something soon they are going to be late in maturing so I am on the look out for a day or so of fine weather and I will take the plunge. At this rate parsnips will not be sown this year as again time is running out. The seed potatoes are "chitting" well. The day after

Coriander in the poly tunnel

writing the previous sentence I managed to get a few hours out in the garden and weed the shallot plot and plant the shallots. Hooray! I also moved my tree onions into the shallot plot as well. At last something done in the outside garden. I have tried to have a go at the designated onion set plot but the weather conspires against me. Made a start  on the bed and to be honest the soil was really too wet and it then soon after I had started it poured with rain so I gave up in disgust and decided to finish off this blog entry instead.
  

Endive seed germinating