I am just about back in the swing of things after the African trip. It rained for the entire time that I was away but, fortuitously, the weather has been excellent since I returned and we have been very busy catching up with outdoor tasks.
This morning we finally finished planting the last field of potatoes; this is the latest that we have ever concluded the job and I feel mightily ashamed of the situation. We were very busy with daffodils in March when the planting conditions were good. Annoyingly, if we had been able to start planting potatoes one week earlier then we would have finished six weeks sooner.
The building work on the new bulb warehouse is going well. The roof is now being fitted and the flooring contractors start on Monday. Our target was to be finished by the end of May so we are fashionably late but it should all be ready for the 2012 bulb harvest.
All of the flower crops look great after the rainy spell. We lost about 5000 plants from one of our new commercial crops because we couldn't plant them but everything else is running to plan.
Next week we will be very busy with the start of the delphinium harvest but today our workload feels lighter than it has for the last four months. I am nipping out to lunch with Charlie, the M&S flower technologist, with a clear conscience.
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