Picked a couple of hundred pak choi in the (11 degrees C) greenhouse. Seedlings coming on on the heat table (20 degree C) for the lettuce (similar to Cos). Pak Choi really lush and green, sometimes have a yellowing on the underside (mildew) so need to be cleaned up a tad and sometimes 3 in a bag if small. Baby chicks arrived and put on heat, nice drip feeder for the bigger chickens. Picked loads of lush Kale today, easy crop to harvest and lovely snapping sound when picking. Here's a pick of the crop;

It's a Kale forest!!

                                         
                                                                 Bagging up for an order

Just a small detraction from growing and a picture from Ella to celebrate True God's Day 2012...

Ella is year of tiger, Gloria year of the ox, Olly the dragon, Lily the rabbit, Archie the horse and Merlin the rooster as is Bogusia. I'm a pig but enough said about that ;)

And I cannot resist Archie's picture just before his up and coming haircut. Einstein and go go?

Back to the growing. I sowed some lettuce and radish in our unheated greenhouse and they are sprouting forth, hurrah. Also have some early onion seeds in the propagator in the garage. Will see what happens there. Got a visit from Martin Macky from Ripple Farm today. They are a very good local supplying organic set up near Canterbury (Godmersham) which incidentally has links with Jane Austen I believe.