Progress of Sorts

Monday morning was dull and cloudy but in the afternoon the sun came out to give us a lovely afternoon.

I spent the afternoon working on the base for our new summer house and at last I can start to see it taking shape. I’ve now got some shuttering in place defining the area required and that enormous pile of rubble has shrunk considerable as it’s been spread around the base to help provide a solid foundation.

In the greenhouse our first broad beans have started to germinate. These were sown on the 26th February so it’s taken just over 2 weeks for the first seeds to germinate.

We had considered trying an over wintering sowing down on the plot last autumn but decided to try our luck with some peas instead. As it turns out that was a failure the worst frost of winter killing off the small pea plants. Other bloggers seem to have faired a bit better with broad beans but have suffered losses of some plants due to frosts. Our module sown broad beans usually provide us with a good crop so I think I will continue in future with our tried and tested method and leave autumn sowings to the more adventurous plotters.