Its going to be a blog mainly of pictures again. Have spent the last couple of weeks digging out and riddling the 2 compost bins and the compost has been spread around the plot, which is now resulting in a fresh flush of weed and tomato seedlings! It's been really hard work, but the compost is fab and the plants are definitely going to like it.
Anyway, today this bumblebee was going absolutely bonkers in the poppy and was so laden with pollen when it had finished that I wasnt sure if it would take off successfully!
This area between the tomatoes and corn hadn't been allocated for anything, which was quite fortunate as I had a tray of purple sprouting broccoli and a row of sprout plants to transplant. So hoed and raked the area
then firmed it down with some festive wellies ;-)
ta dah!!
dug some holes
puddled them
then planted, and pigeon proofed (hopefully)
This is what else is going on around the plot - onions are starting to get to a really good size and the white and ones from seed havent bolted yet. The red have, so have nipped out the flower heads and will need to use quite quickly once they are lifted.
The strawberries have just about finished, but have been delish
these cauliflowers are almost big enough to lift the tunnels, but wont risk it for another few weeks to make sure the pigeons dont demolish them.
white onions (Ailsa Craig) from seed
Corn (Incredible)
peas and broadbeans are both starting to pod nicely
earliest tomatoes are starting to fruit, so hopefully will have a steady flow of tomatoes ready, and not the huge glut I had last year to deal with.
courgettes and pumpkins are doing well. BNS is unlikely to come to anything this year.
carrots and beetroot need thinning
later sowing of carrot and beetroot, and swede (under the net) are starting to recover from attack from flea beetle
lettuce, spinach and fennel
main crop in the foreground, first earlies at the back
parnsips
asparagus
flower garden is starting to look really pretty
Harvested today, first early spuds, rhubarb and a few strawbs and raspberries
Then made rhubarb cake
and baked raspberry meringue pie (with some of last year's raspberries from the freezer)
