......but well worth it if you want the very best tasting veg that has ever landed on your plates!

Praise indeed from the website of the Zion Chapel holiday let in Poynings, thank you Darren.

So if our coming to the area, you know where to stay. If you're looking for something to do and your bored with beautiful walks on the downs, fine dining at the Royal Oak and chatting with the tame locals ...there's always some digging to be done down here!!

Meanwhile this weeks treat for our customers is...

Romanesco Cauliflower. Phil wouldn't be Phil if he didn't grow some fractal vegetables. It is rumoured to be very hard to grow, but it has turned out better than any of our other brassicas. Maybe it needs plenty of water...we have certainly had that!!

I ate it for the first time last week and I really prefer it to normal cauliflower. If you don't overcook it then it keeps its gorgeous colour and texture.

Go on try some....

Broc Limited

My brother Nick has a company called Brox Limited, but with a broccoli harvest as good looking as this we could pinch his company name...perhaps we should be Broc Limited!

Salad Regiment reporting for duty

For one shockingly short period of time earlier this year we were on top of the weeds! This is a lovely photo, by Sky again capturing that moment! These salads have since been picked, re picked and picked again until they all bolted. We have now moved onto another bed of salads, and will be replanting this one for our autumn harvest.

Its Maddison...not McKrackin

Rocket, Spring onnions, red onions, chard, and spinach all being tended by Mr Phil McKrackin. Not a great shot of him, but as he rarely checks the blog I will see how long I can get away with posting it up here! Sky is to thank for the photo!!

Steaming hot and stinky

Three Cheers to Olus, the local Green Waste company who keep us supplied with compost. We have got through 50 tonnes so far this year and there is another 20 waiting to be spread. The weather has been frustratingly wet. Good for watering plants, but terrible for planting.

Catching up

A wet spring has meant that we have been racing to keep up. We did not plant green manures over the winter so there has been alot of bed preparation to do. Its taken shape. Thanks, Sky, for the pictures.Meanwhile in the greenhouse we have hundreds of peppers and tomatoes and cucumbers. They have all grown magnificently and our first cucumbers are due this week. Here is the greenhouse just after Sky had planted over 100 tomatoes. He is having a well deserved rest before he starts on the peppers and cucumbers.