Quick Update.......

More peas on the way....












Courgette seeds planted.....











Anti-bird netting installed around the peas & sugar snaps.....











First wigwam in place for the French Beans















A lonely French Bean!

Sprouts & Cabbage Planted

Bed prepared for the Sprouts & Cabbage.

Room on the left for Broccoli.....

Foreground - 12 x Brussels sprouts (Trafalgar)


Background - 10 x Cabbage (Stonehead)

All of the plants are in & watered












Now covered & protected from the birds

Boad Beans Support

Step 1 - install the posts around the broad beans

Step 2 - tie rope to the posts



Step 3 - wait for the broad beans to grow!

Pea Netting Installed

As the Peas (Kelvedon Wonder) have grown to a reasonable height, the netting was installed today to encourage growth and support the plants















The plants look dwarfed by the tall netting, 0.9m high. 

Hopefully they should be soon climbing to the top!

Sugar Snap Peas Planted

Marking-out the bed

Sugar snap pea plants in one of the lengths of guttering ready to plant out.

Using the gettering has been a great success and has stopped the mice and rats eating the seeds!

Sugar snaps planted after sliding them down the guttering

L-> R : broad beans, peas, sugar snaps


Peas protected by netting and slug pellets

Early Potatoes Banked-Up

With the threat of frosts in the next few days, without any action the tender shoots will be damaged.

Earthed-up soil after using the Mantis and a rake

The finished article, with flat tops

Early Potatoes Sprouting

Rocket and Kestrel shoots are showing thru

Risk of frosts next week that could devastate the tender shoots!!!!