Fruit planting

New plan this year - I'm going to keep things simple and concentrate on things that actually grow.

Things that grow:

• Potatoes
• Squash
• Runner beans and Telegraph peas
• Onions
• Artichokes (globe and Jerusalum)
• Soft fruit (rasberry, blackberry, currants)

Things that don't grow

• Brassicas. All of them. Or rather they grow, and then are eaten by slugs, caterpillars, whitefly, you name it...
• Carrots
• Leeks
• Chinese leaf  (they just bolt).
• Most other root vegetables.

Actually, this isn't quite true, most of these do just about grow, and with a huge amount of effort I get about 50 pences worth of veg at the end. Just not worth it. And I've totally had it with ALL brasiccas. 

So, I've been planting more soft fruit. I got a Tayberry and Blueberry for Christmas, and I've added rasberries, a red Gooseberry, redberries and another blackberry. I've also planted out dwarf apple and pear trees that I've had in pots for a few years.

Here's a quite piccy of the area - not much to see at the moment.