Pick up a parsnip

Sparkly picked one of our parsnips last night. 73cm long (2'5") and pretty straight. Hopefully we can pick a couple more like this next week for the summer show.

More peas

Tonight we decided to plant yet another row of peas. While Sparkly got on with that, I watered and took some pictures.

One of many rows of peas.
A pea pod, we tried one and it was very sweet, it's no wonder most peas don't make it to the pan when being picked and podded.
Another row of peas with runner beans in the background.
In between the peas we have a block of sweetcorn.

After picking most of the strawberries the other night, this one was looking a little lonely.
The raised beds are doing well, I have labeled the veg in the picture: leeks, sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, beetroot, lettuce, French dwarf beans.

There is green stuff growing, and its not all weeds

I'll let the pictures do the talking on this one....

Our first peas

Onions starting to swell up nicely

Summer cabbages
Sweetcorn
Aubergines
Potatoes
The shed

our first strawberrya view down the plot from the shed
French dwarf beans
Leeks
Beetroot and Radish
a peep at the parsnips

Carrots and parsnips

One of the raised beds is devoted to carrots and parsnips. The parsnips were pre-chitted earlier in the year and then grown to seedling size in toilet roll centres. These were then planted into the raised bed a couple of weeks ago.

At the other end we put an extra layer of compost and sprinkled it with carrot seeds before lightly raking them over, known as broadcast sowing.

Well today they are all doing quite well.