The season has already begun in the plot. The onion sets were planted during the mild weather in February and the leek seed bed and the parsnips were sown on 1st March. Autumn sown garlic is growing well but the Japanese onions suffered in the cold winter and only about 25% survived. The cold killed most of the kale especially the red russian but a few Westphalian survived- they are very hardy. The only thing to harvest at the moment is chives.