[confused]

Well I was up today and planted out 12 Cauliflower plants , 12 Spring cabbage , 12 Broccoli, 25 silver onion sets , 25 red onion sets , 10 shallots, as well as 10 Estima potatoes , and 20 Epicure ,  Maybe a wee bit early but I will be busy in a few weeks and I wanted to make a start

[Lesley Silvester]

Well done. Are the brassicas covered in case of frost? Some fleece will do the trick.


Here's to a good crop in a few months.

[pgkevet]

I'd be happy if it dried enough to get the tractor out and harrow my loughed section .. then it's row rotorvating pre-planting. Onions sets as soon as drier..but then I'm looking to 4-600 onion sets so serious backache again..

[cloddopper]

Get a 110 cm length of clean on the inside sink waste pipe or some 25 mm copper pipe , tape a 1" dowel dibber to the end so you can make the 1.5  inch deep planting hole and  slide each onion set down the pipe root end first keeping the pipe at a slight angle so the set does not go down hear over heels in to the hole .
 Use your foot to cover the " Planted set " .
 If you carry the sets in your jacket pockets or in a sling round the neck bag  you'll soon have then in and not have back pain.

[Mammyshaz]

After reading a post of early beans I'm putting them off but will sow brassica seeds, cucumber, curcamelons and corn today. My onions were planted in November and have shot up. I love your onion planting method Cloddopper. Must remember it for next year 

[pgkevet]

I planted last years sets into freshly rotorvated soil.. just pushed them straight in with fingers - didn't take long but did mean bending. It's actually not the bending that's the problem... it's trying to straighten up at the end of the row and walk without screaming