I planted out all the Ferlines today. The netting is already doing a good job of holding them up. I’ve added home grown marigolds in between them and left two spaces for Jack Be Littles, which need to grow on a bit yet.

For some floral in-filling, I’ve put a nasturtium into Bed 7, to be near to the future broccoli. I’ve put one of the zinnias into the gap in Bed 3.

The radishes had grown way too big, so I’ve harvested most of them in order to try again. The second row I sowed a while ago is just starting to come up.

The lupins are looking amazing. I must get some proper photos before they start to fade.

The first courgette is coming. I’ve got new tomato food on the way; I must remember to start using it on things like this straightaway.

The radishes are enormous and the first row probably needs mostly pulling up and being resown – with an effort to harvest them sooner next time. Some of these are more like turnips!

I’ve planted three of my four cucumbers. The last one is staying at home until it gets a bit bigger. Hopefully the bees will be able to find these more easily now that they’re in the open and not in the grow house.

I took the cover of Bed 1 before lunch and edged it. I also took out a huge lump of couch grass on the left side. Goodness knows how long that took me, but it was worth it. I also used the hand fork to get out the few bits of weeds and horsetail.

After lunch I used my Wolf tool to quickly loosen the soil in Bed 1. I’d forgotten what a good tool it was and also did the soil in Bed 9, though that had been loosened up pretty well by the ants already.

I planted the pumpkins on the traditional compost mounds with Growmore and then surrounded everything with my remaining straw. I’d like to add a bit more, and have some for the courgettes, so I’ll get another bag.

The forget me not was done, so I’ve pulled it up and need to use one or two of the things I’ve got at home to fill the gap it’s left. The little seedlings and candytuft and I need to sow some more of those.

The borlotti beans – and everything else – certainly look better for having had the general feed. I mustn’t forget to keep on top of feeding in this odd year.

I’ve put two Gold Nugget cherry tomatoes into Bed 7 and with that, the bed is finished but for that last cucumber. The plants will get a bit bigger yet of course, but there might be a little space at the front I could use for something.

The weather has turned very hot and sunny, so I went down to the plot in the evening to feed and water the struggling veg. I’ve given it all a general feed and need to get some more tomato feed for this year to feed my flowers and fruiting things.

I’ve picked the first radishes – the red one is about the right size, so we’re about to be inundated with radishes, as there are plenty more to come. I’ve weeded the entire bed, sown a new row of radishes, and sown chard seed in the gaps in that row.

Big construction project today. Together Suzy and I put together the final frame, stringing up netting for the Ferline tomatoes and the Jack Be Little pumpkins. It took us a long time, but we did it really methodically and well, so I think it should stay up for the summer no problem.

The only bit of edging we did was ripping up some particularly rude, long bits of grass – but we did do the deadheading all the way around.

Down to the allotment today to plant more morning glories. I’ve done around the entire boundary now and have a tray left over. I’ll keep those at home to grow on a bit and will use them either as necessary replacements, or as fillers.

Over in Plum Corner, the foxgloves are waking up a bit, having also rotted a bit. I might just get some flower spikes from them this year if I’m lucky. The one over by the trellis is looking even more hopeful.

The radishes are doing well and need some thinning. Suddenly I can see their colouring and we have red, purple and yellow. I might sow more as I’m not sure if I’ll have a moment to photograph them when harvested.

The veg that I’ve put out is all looking ok, but a bit dilapidated. We’ve gone from lots of rain to sunny and hot, so I think I need to give everything a feed to help it out.

I did lots of edging, including Bed 9, which I uncovered ready for tomorrow’s project. The usual ant kingdom was underneath the plastic, so I raked it up a bit in the hope that the wildlife would find it.

Right as I got to the gate I saw that the lupin which had had a few leaves nibbled was now missing half of a few flowers too. So back to the shed I went to get the slug pellets, which I’ve put all along the left hand side.

Yet another bank holiday weekend, but we’ve got beautiful sunshine and much higher temperatures. I pretty quickly changed my brown top for a vest top when I started doing my potting on in the courtyard.

I’ve gone through everything at home and fed it all with seaweed. I’ve also labelled which plants are spares, which tomatoes are needed for which beds, and which are staying at home as extras. I have a couple of Ferlines that we can’t really house here, so I’ll see if anyone else wants them.

I’ve potted on the marigolds and few calendula into fibre pots. The snapdragons are still a bit small for pinching, though a few are showing the first signs of side shoots now. I’ve rubbed off what powdery mildew I can, in  case that helps.

It’s the first night outside for the tomatoes tonight, with the vital ones in the grow house and the home ones by the back door. Three trays of morning glory not pictured are on the bench, waiting to go to the allotment tomorrow for another planting session.

I’ve planted out the borlotto beans. Four are of reasonable size, one’s small, and one’s barely broken the soil. I’ve direct sown two seeds in the remaining spaces. One of the plants had been a bit battered by sharing a house with the runner beans, but there’s a new shoot already coming where a leaf has broken off.

I’ve made a good start on planting out the morning glories. The one above has a seedling coming up to its left too. I’ve put them around all of the boundaries except the left, which requires more attention/energy. Where existing plants are too thick, I’ve dropped seed onto the ground. I was too knackered to follow up with a  compost covering, so hopefully the incoming rain can beat them into the ground a bit.

The big lupins have big flower spikes coming too! I might need to get more lupins if they’re going to grow like this. The new verbena is doing well. Let’s see if that wants to grow as well at the lupins. Over in the left boundary, the delphiniums are trying, with varying levels of success. One seems not to have a main stalk, but has various side shoots it’s sending up to flower.

The new netting turned up just after we’d left for the plot, so Mum went back for it while I tied in the string around the cucumber frame. Even after 50mph gusts, the frames hadn’t moved and the wound string magically hadn’t slackened either.

We hung the new netting on the bean frame and I’ve planted 8 runner beans. They were too big to get copper rings over them, so I’m hoping that just slug pellets will keep everyone at bay tonight.

We made a new style of frame for the uchiki kuri, threading a can through the top of the netting and then setting that horizontal bar on top of two apex bean pole ends. Then we tied everything in and put a short pole through the bottom of the netting at the sides, so as to make the netting hang slightly off-centre, leaving room to put in the plants.

There’s room at the front end of the row to put something else in, perhaps a zinnia. That then still leaves me a bit of a view to Bed 3 from the gate.

I’ve put 2 courgette plants into the middle bed. There’s some space at the top end, having put the cucumber wigwam off centre, but I’ve not decided what that will be yet. Needs to be something of reasonable size, otherwise it’ll just look like I’ve got the wigwam in the wrong place. Again, might be a flower.

Escaped from work on a quiet day and somehow managed to dodge the rain and wind, finding sunshine. I hadn’t managed to get down to the plot at the weekend, so there was an amount to find on my rounds. Everything looked very lush after lots of rain in the past week. The candytuft has started to come up in Bed 3 and it looks like it might pretty much fill the holes.

The radish has come up really well, but I can’t see any sign of the rainbow colours on them yet. The chard is much more patchy, so we’ll wait a little longer to see how that does.

The elder has definitely woken up now and is coming into life all over. The bed towards the triangle is filling in big time. The everlasting pea is big, as is the bear’s breeches; the geum is doing well and the alliums are coming up.

This is the everlasting pea that the field vole spoiled last year; it’s bounced back well. The trellis bed has lots of big poppies coming up, some nigella, purple loosestrife and a big foxglove. THere are going to be some holes at the front that I’ll need to fill.

Seedlings are suddenly appearing on the ledge – not just what is probably poppies, but also some morning glory from the seed I sowed. It’s good to know that works, so with any luck I’ll get more popping up around the place and it’ll work to sow more wherever needed. I’ve got loads of seed.

I wonder if any will come up in Bed 7, as that’s where the flowers were growing last year.

The carrots are coming up well. The beetroot is patchy like the chard, so we’ll give that a bit longer before judging.

This is the perfect time to get the morning glory plants in along the left-hand side because the verbena has only just started to sprout. The gaps at the front of the bed will most likely take a zinnia or two.

Mum and I put up a frame for the bean netting (ordered), plus a wigwam for the borlotto beans (probably need to sow more), and a wigwam for the 4 cucumber plants (one of which has been resown). Let’s hope that Friday’s high winds just go through the holes.

In the front bed, I’ve got some big autumn cornflowers and the first one has now flowered. Getting the seed in the ground in the autumn is clearly the way to go. Seedlings are waking up, but I need to get some morning planted at the back of the bed before it becomes too damaging for me to stand on the seedlings.

The lupins are huge this year, so that, the geum, and the everlasting pea are filling Plum Corner quite well. I’m not sure the foxgloves are going to survive; they’re certainly not comparable to the one by the trellis. So I think I’ll need some filler, cosmos or zinnia.

I’ve potted on the smallest tomatoes now, so they’re all in big pots now. The snapdragons were also big enough to be split into one per cell. I’ve filled all the cells in the snapdragon/malope/rudbeckia tray and put the others into small pots.