First visit of 2009 to the plot. The onions and garlic are doing quite well although the couch grass is springing up small shoots - need to keep an eye on those. The proposed potatoe bed also had a few small couch shoots but we turned the soil over and got rid of most of them today. I took the fleece off the onions a few weeks before Christmas and am now using this to warm the soil ready for planting the spuds which are chitting nicely.
The potatoe tubers which arrived early December have, up until now, been stored in a closed box in a disused room. Today we removed them from the box and placed them in trays on the window sill. All bar a few have small shoots so are ready to be left in the cool and light.
Looks like we've had some clever birds on the plot - this one had a new years feast on snails by cracking the shells open on a pile of stones I dug up. 
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