Over the last few weeks I've built a fruit cage on the Eden allotment, it covers the strawberry plants that were there before and the gooseberry bushes I put in, along with a few raspberry canes, and now apparently some rhubarb which has sprung up in the cage. Though it is difficult to see it on a photo, it is there. I was a bit worried about the bees getting in and out, but after watching one force it's way through the mesh like a British Lions forward then there isn't too much to worry about.
There's the old greenhouse, a while ago full of runners, sunflowers and pumpkins, which got blown over a couple of weeks later, also the B&Q cloches which are quite good, should have got some more of those, this is in the back garden.
And some of the lettuces started under the cloche, beetroots started under the other one.
Best salad I've grown, those nematodes are doing their job.
These are the beans at Eden, field beans planted as a green manure, but they've really sprung up so I'll let them go on and try the beans, they seem so much more vigorous than the other named types I've sown. We've alreday had a lot of the bean tops with bacon, and in a soupystew.
This is the allium bed at the house, white onions, which are slightly running to seed, garlic which is getting a good kicking from the brown spot disease, I keep rippin leaves off. The garlic are still going, they loved the snow we had. And finally, some afghan shallots, well if they're not shallots we can have opium parties in the shed.
More beans, the bees are loving all the flowers.
And finally one of the cabbages, 9 more to go.
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