Broad beans planted in pots indoors over the last weeks have been wanting to be outside for for a while, I have been hardening them off during the day.   It is going to snow later this week the news suggests, but as it doesn’t snow here in the middle of winter I doubt we will see snow or even frost.    An afternoon visit to the plot to plant these out, all sown at different times and I sowed a couple more today.   One of them felt a bit floppy, I don’t know how well it will cope

While at the plot I planted some sunflower seeds.    I picked the last lot of rhubarb, hoed and generally pottered about.  Spotted a number of seedlings from last week, beetroot, turnip and one leek…