Beans out, salad in

The broad beans are over now. I had a pretty good crop, and have frozen some.

The rocket is growing really well, we've had lots of that, and I picked the first courgettes today, some small yellow ones and a green one. It looks like we may end up with huge amounts of various squashes.

Broad Beans

We had our first big crop today - a big pile of broad beans! This is the first time they've really been that successful - probably because of the good weather.

We also had a good amount of rocket from seeds from the real seed company. Some of it had a few holes in, but not too bad.

Reasonable progress and strawberries

The weather's been pretty good - some sun, some rain, so things are going ok, especially the globe artichokes (near the back of the picture). The summer squashes are all in (about 10) and are starting to establish themselves. Winters ones aren't so good: greenfly.

Talking of flies, the broad beans had a nasty dose of blackfly. A rare organic success - ecover washingup liquid in a sprayer, then wiping them off, did the trick.

It looks fairly weed free doesn't in? Handweeding has played a big part, but also, sadly, has the Roundup, which has meant that most of the grass is kind of under control.

Final thing - planted a couple of strawberry plants today after realising the existing ones were past it.