Charmion our own veg growing is on rented land. Very lucky there. The property backs on to a field. There is a strip the farm doesn't use because of a pipe to a septic tank. It was all overgrown when my parents moved here but, my mother and another brother cleared it up. It's really nice out there in the summer, especially when you have say 40 acres of barley growing.

Some of is gradually getting wound down. My mother is in her late 70s and can't do as much as she used to and she fancies more fruit trees. I don't have her level of enthusiam (she is an in the garden from morn to night type) but certainly want to keep the salad stuff going and the aparaguss bed... We'll have to see.

One thing I forgot when mentioning the greenhouses and with regards to the spring clean is I planted cabbages in some of the containers this winter. Mice destroyed some some of my efforts (which also included winter gem lettuce) pretty quickly with bothe being uprooted and being nibbled but I've got 5 that are hearting nicely. When they are harvested, that will be another tidy up.