Statice

First sweet peas

Potatoes and cabbages

Peas

Cosmos

Cosmos and Rudbeckia

Runner beans

Raspberries

More pickings

Picking strawberries, gooseberries, dianthus, cosmos, statice.

Rich pickings

Picking sweet peas, snapdragons, sweet williams (sown last autumn), raspberries. Set out leeks.

Harvesting cabbages

Harvesting peas

Sown last row of peas, moved leeks to nursery row. Put supports up for cut flowers. Cut first sweet peas.

Site Open Day

Pat's tat stall

Punters at plant stall

Plot pics

Sown carrots - 1 row James Scarlet, 2 rows Red Intermediate. Planted out winter cabbages, runner beans, helechrysum golden baby, bells of ireland, dahlias (4 survivors) and french beans. Moved brocolli to nursery row. This is how the plot is looking today:



Blossom coming out on elder trees:

More of the same

Planted out rudbeckias and sunflowers. And helechrysum and scabious:


Thinned out larkspurs and centaurea. Busy lizzies, verbena and runner beans moved to coldframe.

Tomotoes

Tomatoes planted out in growbags in greenhouse:

Broad beans

Started picking these today:

Broad beans and early peas

Busy

21.5 - Potted on busy lizzies. Moved following to coldframe: rudbeckias, scabious, helichrysum, leeks, bells if ireland, sunflowers. Sown helenium hoopsii (hp), and runner beans to replace those lost to that frost.