TOO BUSY TO POST

 23/06/2014

Having been away for a couple of breaks and with all the weeding and harvesting I need to do I've not found time to continue with this blog. very odd season this year, everything seems to be growing at an amazing rate and all the harvesting seems to coming together.

I did however get round to taking some photos.

The broad beans are taller than I've ever seen but the crop doesn't seem any heavier. One plant was covered in black fly when I got back off holiday but I dug it up and the others seem okay now.

 

 

 

 I'm pleased with the peas this year, first real crop I've actually been able to grow.

Good crop of strawberries, did think I had different varieties but they have all cropped together this year and no sign of them flowering again.

 

First tub of carrots well on it's way but the second, which had germinated before I went away have nearly all been eaten!!! By what I have no idea, never happened before.

 

The first earlies are a bit disappointing. I dug one plant but the yield was low and it cannot be lack of water or manure. they were Rocket (I think) so not sure if the variety isn't suited to the soil.

 

 

Raspberries are well on there way but I will have to check up on them as some of the leaves look a bit yellow around the edges. suspect a nutrient deficiency.

 

 

 

 First time I've grown dwarf runner beans and they look as if they are going to be a good idea. However the third row of peas I planted just before I went away have failed to materialize except for one lonely plant.