I core believe it..............

How do folks. Decided i'd prepare my boreholes ready for the parsnips this week. I'm only doing four barrels this year and i'll slowly add more each year until i've got about a dozen. I had made a very complicated piece of equipment which i have now had copyrighted and is coming to a department store near you! Its my new fangle-ultimate-blue-super-duper-holey-thingymebob- for all those of you desperate to see how talented i am i have taken a photo so you can see such brilliant engineering:

Anybody interested in such a gadget they are now retailing at £14.95 RRP £55.95.
As it happened, the day i chose to do the parsnip barrels, it was red hot and coring each station i was sweating my cobs off! They're done now anyway and ready for the chitted seed.
     Most of the blanch leeks have been taken out from under the growlights and are on a well-lit bench in the heated greenhouse.

These are due for a bigger pot which i shall do next week on my days off. As for the pot leeks, these are romping away in a 2ltr pot again, these will probably go up to a 4 or 5ltr pot next week. They are still under the lights as you can see from the photo below. Take note that i am spraying all the leeks and onions with a weak solution of Dynamec for the control of thrip.

Credit to David Metcalfe- his strain of onion is a growing away nice and strong. In fact they are that strong they hardly require their supporting wires. I've moved them up from 12 cells to 4" square pots and kept them under 12hr daylight.

All xanths are now potted up and set out on the bench. As usual i'm incorporating rockdust into the compost mix as i've found this does make a difference in the final plants when it comes to planting out time.

Last but not least, my first batch of celery has germinated well and i intend to prick out next week (gonna be a busy week next week!) By doing two sowings i'm hoping to get a good set for Shrewsbury show and any others i can use for local shows and they always come in handy for collections being one of the 20 point veggies.

Well...another week gone and March less than a week away! It seems the older you get the quicker time goes- in which case Simon Smith's (smithyveg) time must be speeding along!!! -Love ya Si!