Manure day

Picked hottest day of year to get 15 barrow-loads of manure, for £5. Very hot work. Borrowed Pauls barrow as thats really big. Filled newest box about 80% with manure and then covered with a few inches of soil. Also filled a skip bag and again topped with a layer of soil or older compost. Finally raised level in the pallet-built box by digging a trench, filling with manure and then moving soil back over. All of these will all do for various squashes and got a melon to plant out.

Finished transplanting all the french beans, so that box is now done.

Two garlic left in ground but they need picking now - tops fallen over. Might try some more carrots from seed but tricky when its this hot. Last lot I sowed have come up - but that may be becuase it was cool and wet just after I planted them.

Onions a disater again. Most have hardly grow and many are rotting in the roots so slight pressure on stem knocks them over or pulls them out. Leeks however looking very fine. Garlic ok as well so I dont understand why onions do so badly here.

First crop of potatoes

Dug up first potato - not too bad and enough for one meal for us all. THats Accord - rather "white" and possibly a little tasteless!

Clearing garlic as thats starting to fade and sowing carrots in their place.

Final purchase for remaining free space is a tray of french beans - seperated and potted up for now to make sure they take.

Various sqush seedlings in pots in large box at rear waiting to get planted.

3 more tomatoes planted in large pots, with 4 in skip bag that'll do for them I think.

Weather not too bad - intermittent heavy rain, but when sun does shine quite warm.

A bit of rain over last week

But looks like its warming up again. Plenty of watering required.

Potatoes all recovered from damage about 3 weeks ago fomr one very cold night.

Carrots transplanted from seed tray looking good.

Planted 2 tomatoes into skip-bag (that had squashes in it last year) with 2 more for that at home in pots.