Morning visit in lovely weather.

Another shopping trip by the wife gave me the lift I needed to get down the plot after my visit being cut short by rain yesterday.
I deliberately only brought a carrier bag so if necessary I could walk home at lunchtime.
I first planted the few broad beans that had germinated in plugs in the greenhouse. Of 15 plugs only 9 had sprouted so that made just a single row, not the double row I had hoped for. This is the 4th row in the bed sown so far - I'm beginning to plan for succession!
Then in the Roots bed I sowed a row of Resistafly f1 carrots as well as a couple more rows of beetroot, one of Chioggia and one of Cylindra. As I watered all the seeds I set up planks to shade the rows of carrots to avoid them drying out and not germinating.
Finally I sowed a row of Kelvedon Wonder peas, again in succession to the row I sowed a couple of weeks ago as well as those sown in plugs at home. However one batch in the greenhouse shows no sign of germination - old seed?
As it was nearly lunchtime I pulled some rhubarb before I phoning home for a lift. We agreed I should walk over Lyndhurst Road into the Hoburne estate to be picked up as driving out from the site this morning had been very difficult with the holiday traffic.​