I’m being determinedly optimistic and telling myself that this cold easterly wind will swing round before long and the shivering days will be over replaced by the ‘I’ve been gardening in my t-shirt’ days. In the meantime I’ve been bringing plants on in my Grow Light Garden and the dwarf French beans that will move to the greenhouse once the weather obliges, are looking fantastically healthy. I sowed them in GroChar seed compost which I keep much drier than conventional compost and they seem really happy. At this rate they will be cropping before they make it as far as the greenhouse.