Here
is the first of the 2018 crops - one stick of rhubarb! It, along with
another stick, were harvested in the middle two weeks of April, mine
being an early variety, generally ready to pluck the first sticks
from late March or early April onward.
This
view taking in the scene between my two compost tubs shows how well
my garlic and shallots are growing this season! Additionally, you can witness the gooseberry leafing, and blackcurrant and raspberries
also beginning to shoot out for the coming season.
The
empty bed comprising the main part of this next picture is for my
corn - I haven't planted it yet, its still in pots in the poly tunnel
and yet to surface, which hopefully it will, ready for
transplantation in May or June.
You
can also view my 3 raised beds - the old strawberry one to the left,
the new half one to be shared with nasturtiums in the front and the
regular one that will be on its last season before a turn out to the
rear right. Also in sight is a netted area for peas, beans and salad
crops - to ensure pigeons don't munch MY food! Towards the camera of
the netted area you might just make out 6-7 small curly plants -
those are my chickpeas!
HERE
is the link to a video I made in the poly tunnel in the middle of May
2018 - showing the crops in situ.
It shows the tomatoes,
lettuce, chilies, etc that I currently have left to grow in the
tunnel, after taking the Brussels sprouts, a few tomatoes, most of
the butternuts and all the chickpeas down to plant out at the
allotment.
Middle
of May and I took three pictures down the plot while taking scraps
and coffee grounds down to the compost. It was too wet to dig right
away - so I would have to wait a few hours to carry down a half dozen
tomato seedlings to plant or do any weeding. This first shot shows
the chickpeas, celeriac, and Brussels sprouts plants.
In
the second shot, you look across over the butternut and corn area to
the prolific strawberry bed - with a nothing-came-up carrot/turnip
bed in front and beyond to my red onions. In my final shot, you can
see my next-to above pic bed of tomato, rainbow chard and kale
planted the day before the photograph was taken - already 2-3 of the
tomatoes have been munched, sigh. Then there are 4 garlic/oniony things
that I left to grow for seed as an experiment in a patch of land to
be filled with tomatoes as soon as the soil dries enough to allow me
to take them down - hmm, one more hour perhaps?