I hoped to have got the potato beds dug by now (last ones to do) but what with a "flu" type things for a few weeks and then a holiday, I am a bit behind...
The garlic and autumn shallots look great, the autumn onions were slow, but all but one are now "on the go" and a few inches high. I now have a couple of 2' lengths of early peas in (under cloches and more still in guttering - I have mice :() a few early carrots (cloched) a few turnips (cloched) parsnips (attempted today as the soil has been warm for a while; I have sand over the seeds and film over the bed) spring onions, shallots and red onions. Have a few things in a cloche in pots ready for going outside when the area for them has been dug... (chinese and jerusalem artichokes, babbington leek, egyptian onions, canary vine, american/potato bean.)
Hope to catch up on the potato bed digging this week in the evenings... and hope I can keep on top of the weeds this year which have started growing rapidly (nettles now rapidly growing where I haven't yet dug/cleared)
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