Warm sunshine. Digging commences. Soil quite dry, not sticky. Started digging the ex-spud bed, where thered cabbages 'were', and around the mizuna. Also a bit of rough digging around where the broad beans, beetroots were last year.
On the way down, I spotted a cormorant sitting in a tree. Quite what it was doing, I've no idea. After about five minutes of occasionally sunning it's wings in the usual cormorant style, it flew off in a rather uncertain manner towards Catford.
Weeded the herbs and half weeded the leeks. They small, though they did go in late due to the first batch being destroyed, probably about thumb thickness. I will leave them for a bit and see if they thicken up a little, but if nothing's doing by the end of the month , I'll lift them; baby leeks are better anyway. The parsnips have been a major success, very nice, sweet, no woody core and a lot of them.
I have lifted some spuds too, Desiree and Anya, I will cook a few of each to see if they are ok and haven't turned sweet.
Pruned the large gooseberry, it's pretty large now, I have hopes for a decent crop this year, last year was it's forst year after being moved, so fingers crossed. I think I will remove the two older plum trees, they bear little fruit and are always rotten anyhow.
I have cut back the raddichio, as I read it will come again in the early spring. I hope so as I missed all but one (ready soon) of this crop, and I like it grilled with sweet onions and live oil.
Loads of carrots in the ground all have now spilt or are riddled with worm holes, though the Nantes variety I sowed, clearly
grows well in this soil. New seed for this year arrived, I am trying a new broad bean which I will sow this week. Green Windsor, supposed one of the better flavoured varieties.
On the way down, I spotted a cormorant sitting in a tree. Quite what it was doing, I've no idea. After about five minutes of occasionally sunning it's wings in the usual cormorant style, it flew off in a rather uncertain manner towards Catford. 
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