Update

It's been a very cold and wet month so far. We've had some warm sunny spells, but only for a few hours on the odd day here and there. It's not been the best weather for gardening, so we've been decorating and sorting the house instead.

I've popped down the greenhouse to make sure everything is ok and water as required. One night of frost seems to have killed off our 3 grape vines - I'm not sure why Wilkinson's would sell grape vines that couldn't survive the local weather, so will be contacting them about it.

Not much action with the sweetcorn - only 2 out of 30 have come up so far. A root around in a couple of sweetcorn pots showed no seed left, so have re-sown them. Have also sown another 12, this time Swift.

Not much action with the peas either. Out of 48 each of Oasis and Jaguar, only about 10 have sprouted so far. Guess that's the end of my hopes of early peas - time to replace with normal peas, probably Kelvedon Wonder again. Ho hum.

We've made up 3 salad tubs for the patio. They have a mix of various loose leaf lettuces, spinach and a couple of pak choi. I'd prefer to have more variety including rocket and mizuna, but it seems that lettuce grows much faster than the rocket, and I don't have any mizuna this year. Not to worry though, we have plenty more salad tubs so we should plenty of variety.

I've also sown runner beans and french beans in pots in the greenhouse. We have green and purple French beans and 2 varieties of runner beans.