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Hello, welcome to Tuesday 5 May 2026. 

I'm still getting over my cold so my voice sounds a bit croaky. Thank goodness we had some rain over the weekend! Phew! It really helped the soil although it wasn't enough to top up IBC1 unfortunately.

I spent the weekend planting out the first few batches of my hardy annuals on the field: the agrostemma, ammi, scabious, stocks and saponaria are out and protected under some temporary netting to keep the pigeons off. This means there is now space outside the greenhouse to move the next lot of seedlings out for hardening off, meaning there is now more shelving space inside the greenhouse for more tender annuals. 

I'm also talking about the numbers of seeds sown vs those which germinated vs those which survive potting on vs those which actually get planted out in the field, and the numbers are interesting. I'm looking forward to working out the actual survival rates at the end of the year when I have a full set of data. 

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