Is it spring?

I posed the question 'Spring??' last time, as (despite the date) it had been cold and wet. Well, today I went up to the plot and it snowed! However, I have planted out some pea seedlings, which I have covered with a green mesh cloche (after putting down slug pellets of course!) then with a fine mesh, so they should be OK. Whether they will actually grow is another matter! The broad beans in the background have been in a while, and have made no growth so far.Perhaps next week will be warmer .... I have also sown some beetroot, lettuce and carrot seeds, as a follow-on to those I planted in my hot bed. Those, by the way, are doing quite well. the potatoes have not yet shown above ground - maybe they know something about the weather that I don't!

At home, I have just sown some French bean and runner bean seeds, and in the next couple of weeks will sow sweetcorn and butternut squash. Hopefully it will be very considerably warmer when they are ready to go out.