Things Growing Apace!

Everything is growing like mad now, with the downpours we've had recently helping along the veg, AND the weeds! We were already eating the over-wintered onions, now we can add garlic, lettuce, cucumber, new potatoes, peas, broadbeans, strawberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries and raspberries too :)


Carrot and parsnip bed, in need of weeding, with the newly dug over and planted up onion bed behind - it's now planted up with cos & red oakleaf lettuce, mixed salad leaves, dahlias, nasturtiums, marigolds, and 10 swedes. And all the lovely onions hanging over the fence, drying out.

The peas - Pilot (from HazelAtTheHill) and Gladstone (HSL) are starting to crop heavily now, some being munched immediately and some made it into the freezer. The broad beans (Crimson Flowered) are almost over, just a few pods left on for next year's seed.

Another shot of the newly planted bed - I was so chuffed at doing the weeding and replanting all myself that I've included it twice :) I didn't half pay for it later though, dodgy ankle is still objecting a few days later!

Man-next-door-plot is doing really well too, considering the soil is a bit malnourished... (We think his main fertilizing routine involved Growmore at regular intervals... heigh ho, he was 81 after all).

The potato bed (on the left) had muck added to it before the broken ankle, so they're doing well. The onion bed (middle bed) had some used compost added to it over winter, and has had a liberal dose of chicken pellets. The pumpkins/butternuts/courgettes (right hand bed) were planted into compost filled mounds, and the celery next to it has had chicken pellets. The big bean bed (far end) had some spent mushroom compost, some muck, and some used compost and they seem to be doing fine.

A nice crop of strawberries and blackcurrants drying out on a tray - they were picked in the rain.