At the start of May, I did a post with pictures of the beds and greenhouses. Here is an update, all pictures taken on 5th June 2013, just a month after the previous ones. It has been a cold spring, and you can see that some progress has been very slow, especially the potatoes and the tomatoes (in an unheated greenhouse).
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| The potato beds, with the 2nd earlies (on left) looking more advanced than the 1st earlies. |
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On the right, gone-to-seed land cress, climbing beans (French and runner) hardly showing,
but mange tout peas off to a good start. Broad beans, slower than usual in the middle. The green on the path is the pulled-up green manure for composting. |
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| Garlic onions and shallots on the right. Brassicas on the left, where I had left mustard to grow with them, which I had just started clearing back. The mustard had protected the young brassicas well. |
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| Detail of young brassicas exposed after removal of mustard green manure. |
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| Spring planted onions, spring greens and peas, all looking quite happy. |
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| Spinach, parsnip, carrots and beetroot under the near net and more brassicas (Brussels sprouts and Tenderstem broccoli) under far net, with mustard green manure having been cleared from around them). |
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The cucumber plants, surviving rather than thriving after the cool spring.
Sunflowers in 2 pots in the background. Lettuce leafed basil not exactly coming on by leaps and bounds. |
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| Tomato plants, marigolds and lettuce in the other greenhouse |
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| The two upright-habit courgette plants looking quite happy in their pots, hardening off outside the greenhouse. |
2 comments:
Impressive Brian!
Hi CJ (I had to think who it was for a minute). It's not bad, but still slow progress for the tomatoes and potatoes.
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