Planting

Planted two rows of Pink Fir Apples, planted out broad beans.

Sweetcorn was chitted, and planted into cat litter tray.

Tomatoes doing well, Arran Pilots beginning to show, Peas out, shallots, garlic doing well. Harvested more rhubarb, egyptian walking onions showing seed heads, asparagus storming away.

Weather very hot, little rain - watered everything.

Planting

More potatoes, Desirees - 2 x 10ft rows for 16 potatoes total. (Arran Pilots and Charlottes were 10 potatoes each in 1x10ft row).

Asparagus crown count now officially 15 - 9 at the allotment, 6 at home. 5 at the allotment are pretty thick and solid looking, the rest are pretty spindly.

Sowings, Harvestings

Sowed climbing beans (cobra), dwarf french beans (ireland creek, something yellow), squash (Anna S, Crown Prince, Tennessee Sweet Potato) earlier in the week.

Sowed peas (Onward, Onward advanced, Progress #9) last weekend, along with Arran Pilot and charlottes.

Began to harden off broad beans today, Asparagus doing pretty well - up to 9(?) plants out of 10 crowns from E's mum, and something like 8 (very thin) ones from the seeds sowed ourselves.

Harvested second load of Rhubarb

Earliest of the potatoes

First earlies and seconds both planted - arran pilots (very well chitted) and charlottes.  Elsewhere, garlic, shalots on the go, rhubarb harvested 4 stems, broad bean doing meh, siberian haksap ok, Egyptian onions ok, tomatoes  ok, cucumbers came in from greenhouse - looking unhappy, leeks a bit slow.