Midsummer's day has come and gone, so the days are now getting shorter. However, the plot is looking OK, and there is a lot more of the growing season to come.
So far I have harvested strawberries (not many, enough for 2 or 3 people on several occasions, but this is only their first year) broad beans (which we eat as mangetout) cabbage, lettuce, spring onions and beetroot. Next week the first peas will be ready - I can hardly wait!
This shows sweetcorn in the foreground, with runner beans behind, then peas then broad beans. I had good germination on my first lot of sweetcorn (Earli Bird, which I harvested last year in early August) but very poor germination with the second lot (despite using the same conditions) which was a variety called Sweetiepie. I wrote to the seed firm who sent me another packet of seed, which have nearly all germinated, but of course they will be very late. I just hope that we have some good growing and ripening weather in August and September.
