Planting continues and spring growth

Planting is still going ahead, we have just finished the main crop onions (about 3weeks late) with the leeks and shallots still to go in on the allium part of the rotation.
As seen below some of the courgettes, marrows and squash have gone in, this is earlier than we would normally plant but the forecast seems promising so we have taken a chance on there being no late frost.

Now that the warm weather has been with us for a couple of weeks there has been some rapid growth with some crops, Jerusalem Artichokes for example have gone from nothing to this in one week. The grass is making similar rapid growth.


The broad beans are flowering, these were planted in september last year, after a period of poor growth seem to have made a reasonable recovery. That part of the south bank does have low fertility so for future years we will be growing green manure to improve growth rates.