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.