March has been busy in the field, with narcissus and hyacinths springing to life - and us too! We have been prepping our beds and sowing seeds seeds and more seeds!! We have also divided and potted up all of our dahlia tubers and sown seeds from the dahlias we grew last year - the dahlias grown from seed are never the same and we love producing a few new varieties every year! It's always exciting to see what new and unique beauties spring into life later in the season.

Now we have two polytunnels we are using the original tunnel to grow some early plants - we have a few ranunculus in flower and a mix of cosmos, zinnia, larkspur, nigella and sweetpea. The weather in the mountains can be quite temperamental in the spring (well...always!!) so we are trying to get a head start on some early blooms which are well protected from the elements. We have even put irrigation in there  - we have really pimped our polytunnel!! We have hardened off a few larkspur and pot marigold that were sown last autumn and planted them outside with a light frost cover - so far they are braving the elements really well, we just hope there will be no sudden spring snow like we had at the end of April 2024!