New Potatoes

Lured by some sales shpeil, we have planted some Charlottes with a view to having some October/Late new potatoes, mainly as an effort to offset the poor seeming performance of our main efforts. We dug up one dead plant yesterday and got 4 roosters :(

2010 Chicken hen

Getting the plot back into order. There was a long dry spell and despite a lot of help from all and sundry somethings havn't survived being abandoned for 3+ weeks. We've weeded a fair bit and watered a lot and here is the current status:
Shallots - dead. Didn't like the dry at all.
White Onions - OK, not enourmous but doing ok,
Garlic - harvested a few weeks ago, smallish in size but pretty good cloves and pretty tasty
Parsnips - not a great level of gemination but probably 8-10 decent looking plants atm
Leeks - planted them out - they look a little small, but healthy
Courgettes - delivering atm, the pinstripes in particular are very good - long and thin
Green Beans - Ying Yangs were a non starter, Borlottos have 3-4 plants doing well, 2 plants or so of the cattle gold/irish creek (with pretty good yields) and 1-2 plants of the regular green bean type (tendersomething?), Cherokees 2-3 runners looking pretty good. We planted a second set of the dwarf beans in the hope that they might dleiver a late harvest; they're just germinating.
Runner Beans - maybe half the potential level of plant, but those that have grown are thriving, albeit not all the way up the frame
Broad Beans - smallish yield now done.
PSB - tiny plants, going to hunt for some plugs.
Broccoli - Growing ok, although now have whitefly, and the heads that are appearing look a bit motheaten
Kale - disappointing germination, those that did got slugged, planted some potential replacements
Purple Cabbage - small but still going quite well.
Potatoes - Charlottes probably not the ideal first early, but tasty (apparantly), PFA doing ok, small aboveground growth but solid, Roosters - looking very sorry for themselves, dug a dead looking one up and got 4 potatoes :(
Rhubarb - ok now, looking ok,
Asparagus - new crowns at the allotment grew really well, with some getting ~2 feet high, but now has asparagus beetle. Seed-grown ones at home are ok, but much smaller.
Raspberries - doing well - ate some today for the first time
Beetroot - very good, picked several large beets
Peas - doing pretty well, picked a second helping this afternoon, small and not huge numbers but sweet.
Squash - 4 plants survived - 1 harrier with a decent sized butternut on it and another seemingly growing now, 1 Anna Schwartz, going bananas with three squash on it growing like the clappers, another Anna Schwartz with good length, but only the beginnings of squash on atm, and one other, probably a Crown Prince (type) with one big light gree squash forming and maybe 1 or 2 more potentials.