Simon's Allotment

Planted out rudbeckias and sunflowers. And helechrysum and scabious: Thinned out larkspurs and centaurea. Busy lizzies, verbena and runner ...

Tomatoes planted out in growbags in greenhouse:

Started picking these today:

21.5 - Potted on busy lizzies. Moved following to coldframe: rudbeckias, scabious, helichrysum, leeks, bells if ireland, sunflowers. Sown ...

Frost - took the tops of the potatoes, killed most of the dahlias, cleomes and the tops of the runner and french beans poking up in coldfra...

Planted out dianthus and carnations: Statice and cleome: Dahlias and cosmos:

This is how the greenhouse and coldframes are looking today:

May Day - up the workers! Put up supports for first row of peas:

Planted out sweet peas, brussels and cabbages . Dianthus and dahlias moved to coldframe. Potted on antirrhinums and rudbekias. Lovely gro...

This is how the greenhouse was looking today:

More sowing in the greenhouse - runner and french beans, sunflowers. Got a few brassicas and lettuce out into the coldframe. Started pinc...

Did some pricking out and potting up, planted out main crop spuds and sowed another row of peas. Dug and mucked trenches for runner beans a...

Started harvesting the purple sprouting today:

Pricking out antirrhinums:

Can't complain about the size of these:

Peas sown in a wide flat-bottomed drill: