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Back to the crops. Here we can see a haul including cauliflower, rhubarb, lettuce, and a bowl of gooseberries and nasturtiums. Next up, more crops - raspberries, raspberries, potatoes... May-June-July are busy cropping months!

Next, a shot along the hedge-fence. It may be more fence than hedge currently, but hopefully that will soon change. You might be able to spot 4-5 different roses - both tea rose and olde fashioned - along with yew, box-privet, hawthorn, and a yellowy folliaged thing - along with nasturtiums in the foreground.

This is the azalea which has successfully been removed from the forest of brambles and bindweed in the front yard and found a perfect home under the kitchen windowsill. I am sorry to say - we are back to the subject of crops again...

Here was a July sampling of potatoes, raspberries, cauliflower, gooseberries, rhubarb, lettuce...sigh - and yet another sampling - rhubarb, blackcurrants, raspberries, shallots, lettuce, gooseberries. Based from May and going all through June, I have a 6-10 week stretch where I am bringing home crops 5-6 days a week and spending 80% of my allotment time picking things!

Lets change the subject - to what is still growing! Here is a July picture of my onions - progressing well - with the dug over space where garlic and broad beans were harvested from, stretching to shallots at the rear.

Finally, for today - one strawberry bed, my nasturtium/squash bed, a artichokes, my salad bed, and leeks - with fruit bush 'jungle' behind.