It's raining!!

And pouring! I have just popped down for an hours weeding in the rain - I am trying really hard to do little and often to try and keep on top of things this year - and so far it's not looking too bad. Planted out on the allotment we have potatoes, onions, garlic, tomatoes, mange-tout, sweet peas, beetroot, spinach, lettuce, carrots, parsnips (2 so far!!!!), purple sprouting brocolli, calabrese, cauliflower, kale, brussel sprouts, turnips - wow! quite a list! and still courgettes, squash, pumpkins, runner beans, french beans, peas and sweetcorn waiting to go in.

One job I must do soon is to get the fruit netted - we have loads of blueberries, blackcurrants, goosesberries etc and I don't want to share with the birds!!

At last I'm getting somewhere!

Well this is how it looked yesterday. I have put two wigwams up so far, and planted mange-tout and sweet peas. The rhubarb behind is doing well and I've made some scrummy rhubarb crumble cake with it!

In the front of the picture are my broad beans - there are more in another bed as well - about 40 plants altogether so we should get a decent crop. They are not flowering yet but I forgot to do them in the autumn so they are a bit further behind than other peoples.

The potatoes are all showing through now and I earthed them up yesterday.

Here are my baby purple sprouting brocolli plants! I have been really pleased with what I grew last year that I am doing the same again. I also sowed a row of turnips in front of the PSB.

Behind the 'brassica cage' you might be able to see my 3 blueberry bushes - they were only planted late last summer so I don't know whether I'll get many blueberries or not this year but they are flowering well. The canes are there to put net over when I get around to it!

Under the small tunnel are a dozen spinach plants and in the other side of the bed I have sown some beetroot.

The carrots that I sowed under fleece in March are coming on really well - but the dreaded marestail is loving the cosy fleece as well and is sprouting up all over the place - got to keep on top of it this year!

Today we have rain so staying at home sowing seeds and potting on !!!