As is increasingly usual these days, we were woken by one of our aged cats this morning.  His behaviour is excusable due to his age, but five-thirty?

After a resumed sleep, the day seemed sunny, so we got up and had breakfast.  A morning of fruity activity followed by root things.

Before we made it out the door, the showers began.  Some of them heavy.  As we worked away in the potting-tunnel, the rain beat down on the plastic skin.  We felt sorry for those participating in St Patrick's Day parades.

We prepared some Rootrainers and sowed peas.  Magnum Bonum and Carouby de Mausanne.  Tricia also sowed some La Diva cucumbers.

Between horticultural jobs, I had to do a repair to the van's exhaust.  We need a van, but the present Nissan is on its last legs.  If anyone knows of a VW Transporter going cheap..?

Two shots of the lovely flowering currant at the front of our house

After lunch, I went down to the big tunnel to hoe various root seedlings and water the beds.  The idea was to sow more carrots, beetroot and red scallions.  In the end, Detroit Globe and Golden  beetroot were sown and in between them, some clumps of Apache Red scallions.  The carrot bed was raked, de-stoned and watered ready for tomorrow.

Golden Beetroot seeds

The annual Greening of Beagh is further in evidence.  Each time I go down to the big tunnel, I look to see how the vine is progressing.  I gave it a robust pruning this year, perhaps a little later than was advisable.  I have been anxious to see it show proper signs of growth and today was not disappointed.

There's life in the old Burgundy