New records were made today in the garden when it registered 19.1c which is the hottest day of the year so far and also the hottest April day since I started recording temperatures in 2021. You can see below that March was a record setter too.

If it’s 19c in the garden then up at the plot it is likely to be a lot warmer and I wished I had taken a cold drink. The plan for today was to finish off planting out the potatoes. The final rows were all ready from before, I just had to drop a potato in the hole, cover with rotted down horse manure, and then draw the soil back over. Once all the rows start showing I shall start banking them up.

I’ve sown carrots at home but I felt like having a row at the plot too so I hoed in some of the rotted down horse manure (it’s all been used up now) and did a single row of quite small stubby carrots.

I could see young radish seedlings under the fleece where the parsnips had been sown the other week and so I removed the fleece and seeing as it was so warm, I gave everything a watering.