Now the hay is cut, the garden is looking quite pleasingly productive
I can't get over how organised it looks.
These turnips are growing well.
I've never suceeded in growing turnips before, the young plants always got decimated by slugs before.
I don't know where the slugs are here, but I'm happy not to have them.
On the left there are courgettes and on the right beetroot.
I can't remember what I sowed in far right row, but they didn't come up.
Seeing how congested the turnips were, I thought I'd transplant some into the empty row. As you can see, that was a bad idea. I now know turnips don't transplant. I also now know that you can eat turnip greens. That sounds an excellent way to thin them.
Tomatoes and paprika here, under a shelter. I've not done the shelter thing before, but all the locals do and having lost most of my tomatoes last year due to rotting after a summer storm, I thought it worth a try. It's a catch 22 - you keep the rain off the fruit, but you also keep the rain off the roots and risk the whole plant dying of drought. We'll see what happens
Potato patch looking very lush.
And a young cherry tree in the background.
Chillies, cucumbers, beans and peas strating up.
And some weeds.
Remember those current bushes, the saving of which was my sole aim for this garden last year? They have repaid the effort and not only do we have healthy bushes with lots of new growth, but a promising crop of berries too. I just can't wait til they go red.
I've added a couple of gooseberry bushes to the row for variety.
And started rescuing the raseberries, which last year had to just cope with the smothering grass. Hopefully a bit if space and sun this year will do the same for them.
I moved some of the raseberries, which led to some unconventionally planted sweet potatoes. I'd run out of room for the sweet potatoes, so they went into the holes vacated by the raseberries. They'll have to compete with the weeds and grasses but better than staying in a seed tray!
And digging up whatever makes it in the autumn will at least start breaking up the turf. Here's one just planted.
And I've discovered a row of herbs burried in the grass just outside the fence. Mint and lemon mint were fairly easy to identify but anyone know what this is?
And now I have a bench at the top. A wonderful place to sit, after hard work in the garden.
