Think it's fair to say I'll be eating plenty of salads this weekend.
They're doing great and the fine weather is helping, happy days.

The last few days of really good weather has seen an explosion in the
salad planters. More days like those should see me picking the first
leaves quite soon. Looking forward to it.

Salads are going well. Just watered them again. Still no sign of the
French beans. However the garlic had now sprout. It's all good in the
salad corner.

Just a quick update on some of my planters. I'll start with the tall
planter in the corner. I planted the French beans in here, no sign of
anything.

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Got my free seeds from the BBC's Dig in project. That's the second
year it's been running. All you have to do is register and if they've
got any left they'll send you a free pack of seeds.

I don't have much room but I've planted out the salads and the beans.
Looking forward to see what comes up.

This is me in my second year of my great vegetable experiment. Last year was more success than failure so I have a lot to achieve this year to match last years harvest. It's on.

I finally got my finger out today and got my vegetable planters sorted for the new growing season. It wasn't entirely my fault, the weather has been terrible and the snow and ice has, in the last week or so just melted and thawed enough. I had a look at the planters earlier in the week but the soil was just too hard. I could also finally see the damage the weather had wreaked on my winter vegetables.

As you can see from the photograph; my winter cabbage, swedes, beetroot had been destroyed by the snow and ice. All that was left to do was to dig them out and get it set for the spring, refertilized with chicken manure.

However it was not all doom and gloom on the growing front. I had some new growths from my herbs. Somehow they had managed to survive where the vegetables had died and some of them were even sprouting. Hopefully I'll be able to nurse the tarragon, curly parsley and thyme that have lived, to maturity and be able to use them again this year.

Now all I have to do is decide what to seed up and propagate and plant them out when it's time and the weather is warmer.