Football interferes with lottying

Have been up to the lottie a couple of times this week, but hangovers and football tours have pretty much put paid to the intensive week that I'd planned.


Still, got the final bed dug, covered in half-baked leaf mould and covered with weed suppressant to give me time to figure out what I'm going to plant in there. Could start some more beetroot as we seem to like that now ! Mr Sluggy and his pals had chomped their way clean through the top of two full size beet, wee swines, but the sown in situ babies look as if they're coming on fine.

Just went up there this morning to see what was going on and to see how many marrows had put in an appearance. Nothing much was out of control. Did a bit of weeding, cut some comfrey and slung it in a water butt. Need to give everything a feed by the looks of things although I had thrown some chicken pellets around earlier in the week.




I have two baby squash! I was thrilled. Ahmed's Bosnian I think (as the labels are now pure white). Both on the same plant.





Supersprout's Gigantes have more or less all reached the tops of the canes now and are starting to bloom. Both red and white flowers.


The leek bed still is overrun with weeds despite me chopping loads of them off each time I'm up. The leeks themselves look as if they've taken ok though. The blue lake beans are still struggling to climb but the two rows of radishes have put on a bit of a spurt since the last visit.

The chard is looking good. Guess I'd better read up to find out what I'm supposed to do with it now, and how big I have to let it grow before starting to harvest.





Cut one baby marrow and things are definitely slowing down on the courgette front, but there are still plenty of tiny ones coming along.





The poached egg plants are starting to flower. Hopefully not too late to attract the bees.

So the next stage really is to make the edges for the raised beds and to get the second fence back up, get some WRM in and start some more stuff off in modules.

But we're getting there and it's great.