Allotment

Planted out some cabbages, existing ones have been a bit slugged.
Sprayed the broad beans with soapy water, did some weeding.

Eaten Cabbages:

Peas (seem to be a bit small, but alreading delivering peas): Dying Broad Beans:

Planted out some yinyangs.

Also, broadbeans have some bad black fly. Pinched out the tops of some of the plants, and gave a serious squirt with washingup liquid, but i think it's going to be a bit of a struggle. A lot of the lower down leaves seem to be dropping off without developing a broad bean behind. Oh dear.

Weeding, then more weeding

Did some serios weeding of the carrots and the parsnips. The snips are doing pretty well, the carrots a bit slower.

Fingers x-ed that the carrot fly didn't get a sniff.

Transplanting leeks

Transplanted the leeks from their tray and put them into pots so they have a bit deeper soil to grow into. Cut the roots and the tops, just like planting them out, but i dunno if they'll live or die.

Did some serious weeding...

There's some slug damage on the beans, and the brassicas.
The beans are all in a bit of a bad way, so it looks like the second generation is going to have to come out in force.

mouldy pots

alarming orange mouldy pots:

repotted ten thousand carrots

god it was boring.

More pictures

Asparagus

Asparagus.

Catchup

Sowed some more kohl rabi & caulliflower, plus fennel, PSB, a few celeriacs (probably a bit too late, but nmind) and err, some other stuff.

Bunged a lot of peas directly into the ground.

Established some netting over the cabbages, which looked like they were being a bit eaten.

Weeding, of course,

Dodgy looking beans

Hmmm, doesn't look good...

Plantings

Planted the first beans on the frame - 2 Cherokees, 4 Borlottos, 3 Runners, plus some Yinyangs in a smaller line of supports.

Planted first Cabbages - a bit of a cornucopia of different types, since the labels washed off.

Planted some kohl rabis (unless they're cabbages)

Planted out a second set of peas. Also sowed some peas directly.

Pictures

Also:

Question, what do these blotches on the shallots mean? Too dry?

Beanframe

Built the beanframe:



















tis a thing of (lopsided, wobbly) beauty.