Sweetcorn, hopefully

These are my sweetcorn - very prolific runner beans in the background - which are virtually ready. They are looking good, but last year most were eaten by mice. So I have picked a few already, and very good they were too. I have also put down a mousetrap, and shall see what that does! The mice are still eating my potatoes - perhaps they will stick with those?

Otherwise, things are looking OK. I am still picking beans, courgettes, beetroot and potatoes. The spring onions, broccoli and lettuces are just about finished now. If there had been more room, I would have sown successional crops. Perhaps next year? But something else will have to go. Onions are all in store now, and leeks, parsnips and purple sprouting broccoli are all coming on well. Soon it will be time to put manure and compost on a couple of my mini-plots, and to dig them. In the meantime, I am taking off all the strawberry runners that I don't want - there are hundreds - and have potted up a dozen of the strongest (still attached to the parent plants at this stage) to replace the old plants that I dug up after the crop had finished this year.