I need to start this week’s update on the plot with a tiny rant. On the 23 Jan, I ordered lots of raised beds from Primrose, three for me and seven for Dionne, they had a 2 to 4 days delivery window. On the 11 Feb, after 3 phone calls, on email and two promises of delivery in the next week, I cancelled the order because Primrose could not tell me when they would be delivered, just that they were having problems with the warehouse, caused by a move. They are still accepting orders for goods they know they can’t deliver. The refund will take up to 5 working days. So it may be in my bank account by the time you read this.Ma and I have decided that we will take that money and build the beds ourselves. But it’s really frustrating because I could have done that four weeks ago and then I’d be done with the beds and all I’d have to do was the pond and the compost.However, with this news and a visit on Wednesday, when Ma almost finished the last bit of weeding and I cut some kale, filled up the bird feeders and pulled up some grass (I was only there for an hour before I had to go back to work, Ma spent the afternoon) and the impending arrival of Storm Dennis, Ma and decided that a weekend off was the way forward.We are no further on with the list but it does need some adjustment. I’m still hopeful that I’ll be done with most of this list (we are not going to get around to the compost buying this month) but the end of the month. We have two more working weekends until March!

• Build two new fruit beds and four new beds.
• Transplant the roses
• Move the boysenberry
• Split the autumn raspberry bed into two.
• Sow some more broad beans and cover the bed with netting
• Pull up the chard and cover that bed
• Set up the cloche
• Sow sweet peas
• Sow leeks
• Buy seed potatoes (we couldn’t get nicola’s so went for charlottes)
• Paint the shed
• Split and trim the verbena bonariensis and move the stuff next to the rhubarb
• Trim the rosemary and sage
• Sow the first batch of peas
• Weed everything!
• Buy compost and start filling some beds
• Turn the compost bins
• Have another bonfire