Longest day

Can't believe it's here already the months are flying by,it's a while since i have updated but i have been busy.at the allotment tonight,sarpo Mira are slow but coming on ok,red cabbages moving along,leeks look great really taking off.runners are getting tall but no beans under the glass.onoins from seed are growing quick and filling out.sweetcorn about 18 inch tall look happy,broccoli about 2/3 inches in head size so I'm happy will let them get a bit bigger before I cut them. Strawberries in outside bed are green about a week to picking,carrots until mesh are looking good,winter onions are about 3 inch wide,cauliflower starting to form small heads. Raspberries are green but getting there,yellow courgette are massive in cold frame a thing of beauty lol.sprouts about two feet high,romanesque are slow four died will fill with cabbage.Picked some broad beans tonight. Purple sprouting pushing up net need to raise it,carrot in raised bed starting to fill out,two butternut showing and some winter squash hope the grow on,garlic looks like it will keep growing a few more weeks,some rust on them.mange tout ready out side peas only in pods,turnip flying as is celeriac sweet pea starting to bud. In polytunnel,sugarsnap cropping last few weeks,courgettes going mad,dwaft beans slow but cropping,mange tout cleared and new plants in,aubergine flowering,some small cucumber forming,melon not in flower,chillies cropping,runner/ French bean growing fast.carrot getting big pulling each week.kohl rabi swelling a few weeks off,potatoes in bed great big yield,cauliflower ready in tunnel as is the broccoli. Will post pictures tomorrow.

Update start of June

It's a while since iv updated,outside on the allotment potatoes all up and rocket starting to flower.Leeks went in about 150 so enough for the winter.Runner behind glass window look ok,top leaves yellow but lower leaves look good and lots of new shoots.onions from seed flying along.broccoli forming heads and sweetcorn planted out and seem ok.pods on broad beans swelling,strawberries in flower and carrots growing great.weeds are manic and it's hard to keep on top of them. Winter onions getting big but some going to seed,garlic looks happy.first butternut showing on squash and red kuri has first fruit.yellow courgette starting to show in pots that are in cold frame.red currents swelling and raspberries in flower. Turnips up, need thinning,same with parsnip.mange tout in flower peas a few. Weeks behind.sprout,red cabbage,caul,romanesce celery all looking good will post pictures at the weekend.sweet pea planted out. Planted up winter squash and butternut outside in tyres,pumpkin only on seed leaves at home. Tunnel,sugar snap ready.courgettes flying getting 2 a week,dwarf beans still slow,mange tout cropping great got first strawberries yesterday. French beans look like they are coming in to flower,melon,cucumber,chillies,peppers,broccoli look good.kohl rabi and celery planted up.carrot are sweeping going to pick some this weekend coming.caul forming heads in tunnel and potatoes flowers dead going to wait until stems die back. Transplanted,cabbage x3 types,winter cauli,purple kohl rabi,broccoli and started to chit some peas for late crop.

My lovely Leeks

Veg pictures

Windy day

Went up to check allotment Wednesday night as it was a very windy day,a barrel had blown on to my newly planted turnip seeds they are only breaking through the soil.so I fixed it back in place.the runners I planted look ok,gave them a drink and put back the glass covering them.strawberry flowers just appearing on the raised bed plants.currants starting to fill out and berries starting to move. Mangetout ready for first full picking from tunnel.first courgette on pantheon plant forming so I hope to have one soon.climbing beans look good.carrots starting to fill out.Climbing bean seed Cobra started direct in tunnel very slow to apper. 2 peas up outside from direct sowing.carrots in tall bed have good true leaves,in the lower raised bed they only have seed leaves.

Broad beans

Broad beans in flower hope to see some nice green pods soon.got some currant and raspberry bushes from fellow grow at allotment.all planted up and look forward to some soft fruit. Runner beans,butternut,squashes planted yesterday did ok over night so let's hope they enjoy their new homes have more for back up if needed.potatoes in tunnel nearly have flowers open.tomatoes plants yesterday in tunnel where happy over night.it was 30 deg in there today,have put up netting on doors to cool it down.it has been fabulous the last 3 days and the French bean are very happy in tunnel.picked so rhubarb today.earthed up potatoes the earlies are popping through.

carrot seedlings outside

Planted in March took until april to come up.that's a weed seedling pulled up in the picture,the allotment is very very weedy.I use slug pellets to start of some things because if I didn't they slug would have more to eat then me.I'm trying carrot in a 2 ft high bed and in a lower bed with enviromesh after the last 2 years of carrot fly something has to be done.the first year was great as they did not know the carrots where there but now its early carrot or none. I hoping the two methods will give me late carrots this year.