Update

We've planted the rest of the potatoes and The Builder has measured up the greenhouse to see how much more glass we need to buy - quite a bit of it cracked where it's been lying down in the frost over the winter.

I've also put various different tomato seeds into seed trays in the propagating tents, plus Brussels sprouts, white and purple broccoli, baby cauliflowers and the green, Italian cauli. Using the egg cartons didn't work. It's a good idea in principle, but I find that the cardboard in the cartons soaks up all the water, leaving the potting mix too dry to ge5miante the seeds properly. Won't do it again (this is the second or third time I've tried, and it's always failed, for one reason or another.)

We now have oodles and oodles of peas and broad beans coming up. Clearly the mice were not eating them, they were just being slow to germinate. Sadly, the pigeons have worked out that the wooden snakes are not real and are starting to eat the seedlings. We've netted them for the time being. When they get a bit bigger, I'll put wine bladders and CDs amongst them to keep the birds off.

And we now have a park bench in the orchard, and an archway over the front door with a red and a white rose ready to climb up it. (I can do that, now that I live in neither Yorkshire nor Lancashire. I realise we are quite close to the Yorkshire border, but the Good Folk of Derbyshire shouldn't really care!!)