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Harvesting broad beans (still very small beans), Kailan (growing at pace), Walking Onions (creating mayhem), First Early Potatoes (arran pilots). Potatoes are still a couple of weeks ahead of official readiness - there were relatively few potatoes, but they were quite large. Also salad has been pretty successful.

Parsnips looking pretty good- germinated and growing larger, PSB (summer purple) doing ok, not huge but going well, Chard healthy and growing but still small, Kale alive but not obviously growing much, Garlic - the ones which didn't resprout after the dry spell look pretty good, the rest less so, Shallots - diabolical, Leeks - skinny but growing, Squash/Courgettes looking like they're starting to snake out, Sweetcorn - short still but going on healthily, French Beans - climbing beans looking pretty tenuous, the dwarves that were pre-germinated and planted out, the ones that were straight sowed are failing, peas - some flowers and pods, still disappointing growth, Potatoes - huge,

Photo update

180A:

and the other one (179B?):

Parsnips (after a pretty good weed):

Leeks (tiny), shallots (a write off, I fear), and Garlic (a mixed bag, fingers crossed for the good ones):

Sweetcorn:


Kailaan (prior to being harvested):


Newly planted chard/Kale:

And 6 beds of squash/courgettes, all of which look roughly like this:



Broadbeans, climbing beans (soso), peas (bit of a disaster):

Some french beans, potatoes:





Siberian honeysuckle & walking onions, and then the raspberries:

Squash

Planted out squash and courgettes. There was a clear variation in the amount of top growth but even more notable differences in the root development.

Planted out some French beans, a mix of some fairly well grown ones, and some grown in very small pots and still only just emerging.

Asparagus beetle the thing growing the best on the plot, broad beans big plants but the flowers look like they might be suffering from a shortage of rain, shallots ditto, garlic a bit better, but still suffering from the weird sprouting of other shoots that i think was the result of the previous drought/rain cycle. Potatoes looking great, raspberries doing ok, Kailan & Summer purple PSB both thriving, spinach doing pretty well, parsnips well germinated but a bit weedy, leeks doing little yet, haskap/siberian honeysuckle, walking onions both looking pretty good, peas look like they're a bust this year.

At home, tomatoes looking ok - first flowers but still quite small plants in ghouse, smaller outside, salad looking pretty solid, strawberries look good but a bit slugged, blackberries about to pick, asparagus survived the tree surgeons. Figs also looking pretty good.