Weeds

Weeds that deserve special mention:

Nipplewort
Redshank
Creeping Buttercup

Stinkhorn Fungus (Phallus impudicus) See comment

Manure Pile & Strawberries

Spent most of the day yesterday digging and moving the compost heap into a wider bed for later planting. Scary amount of bind weed root and cooch grass removed. Also planted out the secind strawberry bed. These have gone in after onions and I have put them in under shade cloth but without adding any new manure. Planted them in about 8 inches apart - tried to pick out the youngest plants that rooted from runners around the edge of the old bed. Am going to put main crop potatoes down in the old strawberry bed to try and clear it.

Pea's planted out in pots are sprouting, summer sprouting brocolli has germinated, savoy cabbage looking a little burned- I think the propagator lid may have over cooked them. Have taken the lid off and left open to the elements. Hopefully they will recover.

Clearing bind weed from the strawberry bed

Dug the strawberries and moved them to the bed next to compost. Enough plants to make 2 beds this year

Strawberries moved today

Dug the old strawberry bed today. Got a barrow load full

Bed 5

Left to right:
Carrot, garlic, parsnip

Bed 4

Broad beans

I doubled up the planted rows of broad beans yesterday because I am not sure whether I planted sufficient seed in the first lot - there is a 2 week gap in the planting too so this may also give me a longer picking period. Wait and see!

Bed 3

Carrot, golden beetroot, spinach