The rain finally eased off during the week and it was cold enough for a touch of frost. The ground was dry enough to dig, but still fairly heavy going. There is now a massive amount of digging, weeding and planting to do.
The early potatoes have come through and there is a bit of frost damage to the leaves, some of which are slightly blackened around the edges. This has happened to us every year so far and they have always recovered. We earthed them up and put in six short rows of main crop (Desiree). We still have a lot of potatoes to plant.
The broad beans have come up and the nitrogen-fixing green manure (tares / vetch) where the cabbages are going is really tall and dense. It will need to be dug in before it flowers.
The purple sprouting has gone over so we pulled it up and composted it. If we'd kept picking it through the bad weather it would be still producing spears.
We have our first rhubarb from crowns planted two years ago. There isn't a lot but neighbours are eager to give some away as the wet weather produced quite a glut from more established rhubarb patches.
