POST CHRISTMAS

    Happy New Year! It is time to start planning the sowing for the 2020 gardening season! The seed box has been turned out and checked for good or bad seed the bad being thrown out! The online seed catalogue has been consulted and seeds ordered to fill the gaps in the seed box and one or two new and different seeds bought. Very tempted this year to grow sweet peppers again after a couple of poor years and not bothering at all last year. Problem is they need to be watered regularly to be successful. Next job, come February which is not that far away, will be to purchase seed potatoes. Desiree will be on the list again, a firm favourite. I will be looking for a french heritage early variety and maybe I might go back to one of my favourites Noirmoutier. Love the foliage of this variety.
  So, over the last week a bit of forking and weeding but generally the ground has been too wet. Wet? That's a understatement. The solid has been virtually liquid. I must not complain. The rain is needed and the ground need to soak it up! The last of the tomatoes have been cleared from the poly tunnel. A task that should have been done a while back but hey ho. Still more weeding and ground preparation to do but, well, slow and sure it will get done. One major task I have is to dig up and replant my Egyptian walking onions. The current bed is now too packed and they need to be thinned out. I might leave doing the job until March and worry about other jobs first! Lol! On the chicken front the hens have done me proud. From the 28th to the 31st December they produced 9,9,9,12 eggs! Yes, they finished the year laying twelve eggs in a day! The most yet! This is from 13 hens. I am overwhelmed with eggs!

Latest hen a Bramha laying

Parsnip carrot garlic onion soup