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Yet another phalanx of weeds had stuck their heads through the ground over the last week, sending up aggressive little shoots from whatever pieces of root I had missed. However, their very growth was to be their downfall - as I dug in the compost yesterday, the contrast between the colour of the dark earth and the white shoots enabled me to remove another good collection of root pieces. After such a satisfying killing spree, I was ready for something that felt more like creation than its opposite, and starting preparing some seed beds. The beds have actually ended up about 10cm higher than the paths between them. I am not sure of this is a good or a bad thing, but I am worried about water retention, particularly at the moment, when it has not rained for over two weeks. Assuming it does not all dry to dust and blow away, the seeds in one of those beds are an early and a late leek, some red onions with a short growing length promised on the back of the packet and two varieties of spring onion. The other bed has only one variety of broccoli at the moment.