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I'm curious how everyone's plot is.  Are you picking crops yet?

I've just been up to mine for the first time in just over a week as I've been on holiday.  The rhubarb has gone mad again with one stick weighing in at 12oz.  The broad beans are fattening up well and I've just finished podding the first harvest which amounted to 11oz.  Sugar snap peas are covered in flowers and I've picked about 3oz.

I need to spend time on the plot as the weeds are getting hold again but nothing that a couple of hours and a hoe won't cure.

Well considering ours is under  6inches of water, we did good today getting a cauli,brocolli, first climbimg beans and strawberries....and some very wet legs and high raised beds.

Up to now we have had broadies, cabbage, cucumber,spuds,asparagus,rhubarb,lettuce,radish, spring onions(tiny) and a few Tumbler toms.

Not been up today but imagine its full of water.

Plot two is 3/4 squash and pumpkins, the rest is brassicas, 2 short rows of onions a bit of lettuce and permanent areas of asp, berries and JA's - weeds not too bad and I've bordered it all with sunflowers... the brassicas are bedded with straw and the squashes have a circle of straw - i aim to cover the whole plot in straw but with OH leaving i dont have a van to collect it! so no idea how i am going to manage that!

Plot one is 1/2 potatos going well, peas started to pick yesterday YUMMMMM and broad beans  are ok - def something wrong with at least 50% of them need to get my books out to find out, cant see carrots for weeds, same for beetroot and the main crop pots - wehn i say weeds i mean waist high.

Looking fwd to sunday to have a go clearing the mess as much as i can!

Lifted all the spuds, eating sungold, black cherry, early girl and 42 day tomatoes, just had our first meal of runnerbeans tonight and purple brussel sprouts, eating leeks, onions, carrots, snap peas, french beans, loads of lettuce (just bung it in the ground anywhere) artichoke, peppers (eating them but still green),had one aubergine (picked cos the plant looked too small to support it!) 2 or 3 early okra. tayberries loads of herbs, kale but the card has all bolted

Went down to the plot today between showers.....dug up my Rocket potatoes, not a bad crop but I was surprised to find the soil barely damp 6 " down!

Also harvested some Coriander for tomorrows curry, my smaller 'Electric' red onions, carrot thinnings and took a big bulb of garlic from the lot drying off in the greenhouse.

Made a great tartlette for tea, using the steamed potatoes, red onions, garlic and cheese with sour cream on a puff pastry base......yummy scrummy! ;D ;D ;D

Rhubarb romping away, strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, blackcurrants starting to change.  Finished our very early pots, starting on the earlies.  Turnips, cabbage, lettuce, radish ready now, broadies nearly ready, peas fattening up, nice to eat off the plant but too lazy to find a meal-worth.  Zucchini will be arriving in full force next week by the look of things.

I've also been away Letch, I've been in Luton for five days so everythings grown since I've been away, especially the weeds, cropped 9oz of KW Peas, broad beans are nearly finished, onions and carrots coming along nicely, runners have only just started to climb the netting, the plots nice and wet but not flooded. Plans today dig out broad beans and check if spuds are ready, weeding especially around the beetroots.

I could feel envious of you lot eating your fruit & Veg now but I am not.

I have hardened to it and I look at it this way;  I will be eating mine when all of yours is finished  8)

Make the best of it after all thats what you grew it for; to enjoy......so enjoy!!

I picked 3 lbs of strawberries yesterday. We're eating various lettuce type stuff and the rocket is lovely.
We've had loads of gooseberries, rhubarb and radishes.
This is the first year we have had raised beds and its made a real difference, especially with the heavy rain that we are having.
Broad beans have only got flowers on, but can't wait until they're ready fried with bacon ahhhhhhh................

Oh Tee Gee, I took a big chance with putting out runners in March but it paid off this year,doesn't always though.

First crops I put in are usually small and I don't rely on them, and I sow a bit of everything very early.

I do a second crop of most everything I grow as my main crop and they are coming up nicely, so we may still be eating together.

XX Jeannine

My runners and french beans all got caught in a frost at the beginning of June, and the directly planted beans haven't shown yet, so I will definitely be eating those much later......... :-\

Strawberries, peas, mangetout, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, herbs.... broad beans.. overwintered onions,...
and earlier carrots, endive, chicory...
;D