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Weeding for Britain

It's been very warm and sunny here, with short spells of rain - ideal growing conditions, yes. But weeds like it too! Today, we peeled back the net from the brassica bed and spent a merry half hour weeding. Actually, it was quite satisfying, so we did the carrots and the parsnips as well. Then we sowed some runner beans, since the first lot seem to have failed, then some dwarf French Beans as well, since there was a space and we don't have many beans in this year.

Claire gave us a huge courgette last week, so that's been put in plus two rows of peas, to complete the line up.

We had our first new potatoes today - Red Duke of York - and they were lovely.