Tales of a Welsh Allotment: Snow forecast? Is this some kind of joke??

Unbelievably, after a little bit of warm weather last week, temperatures have taken a serious dip, we've had rain and wind and now incredibly, in mid May, there's apparently a chance of snow!

Some stuff is coming on in leaps and bounds over the plot, mange touts are up, rocket and chard sprouting healthily and onions and shallots looking great, while my cucumbers, sweet peas and pink banana squashes simply refuse to germinate.

This evening although it was raining, I popped over to do a bit of weeding in the tunnel, one of the pleasures of having a polytunnnel being that you can work in the dry and out of the wind. Glad I bothered since the weeds were getting a bit over the top and the carrots seriously needed thinning out. I couldn't resist trying to replant the carrot thinnings, and I'm sure a proper gardener would tell me I'm wasting my time, but I'm not a proper gardener so I've given them a chance.

Weeny little baby carrots... surely they'll grow into big ones if I replant them carefully....?

Planted 8 sweetcorn plants in the tunnel as they were looking lush and healthy, as well as my sweet pepper plants, which seem to have come to a growing halt since being potted on from their seed trays yonks ago. We'll see if they have a spurt now they're in the ground.
Also got the rest of the tomatoes in the ground in the tunnel. Am a bit mixed up as to which plants are which I have to admit, and it's the same with my courgettes and squashes, although I wrote labels, the pen wasn't permanent and has washed off entirely with watering!

Mental note to self: Next year buy a permanent marker or two.

Last I decided that since it had stopped raining I'd better get my leeks in the ground. Planted 50 of them, and have at least another 50 to go. Used a stick to make holes, shoved the teeny plants in the holes, then gently let the soil fall back around them.