The first batch of broad bean seedlings are coming along fine. The idea is to plant them out when they're 10 cm tall. Their destination is this bed which has had its surface vegetation removed but could do with a little more digging/weeding/manuring/kind thoughts to turn it from its present rain-soaked state of being into something that is just right.
As it happens, A has a friend N who has a horse, etc. Having spent the morning of 26 February 2008 in the greenhouse sowing seeds, A then whiled away an afternoon shovelling well-rotted horse manure into 15 elegant bags in blue sky thinking hues. You can see the broad bean seedlings in their tray having their second session outside the greenhouse on yet another rainy day, 11 March 2008. This is to get them used to the real world such as nasty gale force winds and lashings of rain. Sounds cruel, perhaps, but when one considers their ultimate fate ...
The March weather has taken us by surprise. Although we (think we are) are suitably dressed for digging, planting, mulching, sowing, weeding and clumping about on a clay soil, there is this part of the body just above the knees that feels SO COLD ...
