But for the next week or so, it looks like we will be without a key ingredient of this winter – rain.
After months of wet weather which has left fields across the Island saturated, Jersey is now entering a much-needed dry spell.
And the news has come as a huge relief to farmers, many of whom have had to delay the planting of this year’s Jersey Royals.
Tim Ward, operations director at potato packers and exporters Albert Bartlett and Sons, said that months of heavy rain had caused a major delay in planting the famous spuds.
