We’ve been looking into which tomato varieties we’d like to grow this year and checking we have all the seeds we need when we begin sowing next month. We’ll be direct sowing radishes and salad turnips in early February. The overwintered seedlings in the propagation house are looking good - red Russian kale, spinach and mixed lettuce all patiently waiting to be planted and the first bed of peas went in the ground last week. They’re tucked under some netting, which will hopefully deter the hungry mice! These little green shoots of new life spur us on. When hit with the soggy grey downpours of the last few weeks, they are just the encouragement we need to remind us warmer, lighter days are close, as the cycle begins once more in the fields.