By 21 April we had a range of seedlings growing - all from seed. They include tomatoes, courgettes, kohl rabi, broccoli, peas, pick-and-grow-again salad leaves, sweet peas, nicotiana, California poppies. The French beans and runner beans should be germinating in the next week or so and once we reach May it should be possible to sow seeds directly into the soil for a range of vegetables. The risk of frost at night remains a real risk though, so there's no point sowing too many seeds which will just lie there in cold soil and either rot or get eaten by the birds!
News on the fruit cage is good - all the structures are finished and at the allotment. Linda and I will get the central support in on Thursday evening and then I'll put the gate and the wire mesh 'fence' round the perimeter. As soon as the netting arrives (I had to order it online) it should be a simple task to drape it over the structure and fix it as and where necessary.
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