8 beans in a line

First 2 pods-worth

First Early Potatoes - Maris Bard

Quite a bit of research and asking around on how you know when to pick first early potatoes.  It seems that, because they don't store very well, you should get them up as soon as you can and eat them as you harvest them.

Apparently for second early and main crop you wait until the leaves are dying a bit. But with first earlies it's as soon as they flower.  Anyway I dug one plant up and got a nice little handful.  Very cool. A few had the telltale creepy crawly hole in but most are OK.

Got a couple of strawberries, spring onions and beans for the first 'basket' of the season.

Even more tomato plants

Moved the second staging out of the greenhouse to get a few more of the plum-type tomato plants in

Aubergines in July

Plants beginning with the letter 'A' seem to have got a bit mixed up in my brain.  I keep calling this an avacado but I do really know it's an asparagus.... no it's an aubergine!  Loads more flowers on this plant (present from Elaine earlier this year) so we should have a good crop of artichokes over the summer.

Impromptu patio

Got a load of free slabs which I've laid fairly quickly to get them out of the way.  They're a bit rocky but not too bad.  I'll tidy them up later ... honest.

Moved one of the staging shelves out the greenhouse to squeeze a couple more tomato plants in.

Process mid-June

Strawberries 

Progress mid-June

Tomatoes (about the same as last year)

Straw for the Strawberries

A couple of bags of straw to give the strawberries a nice soft bed to ripen on.  May have overdone it slightly on bed number 2.

The Tomato factory (continued)