Lots growing and first crop (just!)

It's been a warm sunny June so far, and things are growing well, including the weeds. I've just planted most of the rest of the sprouts and purple sprouting. The first batch I put in seem to have settled in well. As it's warm we've been doing lots of watering.


Roger has tried an interesting way of growing carrots - he dug a trench, lined it with newspaper, filled it with compost, and then transplanted some carrots from his greenhouse. Idea I think is to keep the weeds away - our last lot got drowned by weeds. No idea if the carrots will take, or whether they will manage to break through the paper though.

We've also got three rows of runner beans going now:

Finally we had our first, tiny crop - strawberrys! The plot was covered with them (in amongst the grass) when we took it over - we had to dig most of them up, but put some in a big tub, and left a few around the edge. Look....!