Seed Bed

A number of vegetables need to be sown in one place and allowed to grow a bit, before being planted in their final location. Cauliflowers are one, along with leeks. However, some of them don't mind being outside for this stage of their life, and there are others (like early carrots) which can be sown under cover (but still outside) for an early crop. To do this, we've dug a pair of small beds (about 60cm by 2m) where the shed/greenhouse will one day go, built little brick/stone walls around them, and put glass on top of them. Coldframes or seed beds, whatever you call them, they'll now start drying out and warming up, ready for us to put plants in them over the coming months.

That took a fair bit of the morning, as it's been horrible weather (hail, rain, and wind), but this afternoon we managed to rack the three wines that are brewing: hedgerow, elder, and elderflower. They'll need another month or two, and then they can be bottled.