It’s all gone a little multiple personality in the vegetable gardening world. I am simultaneously miles behind where I should be, and further ahead than ever before.
Let’s do a quick recap of where we are.
Potatoes - some are doing great, some appear not to be coming at all. And that’s some of the second earlies. This is troublesome.
Tomatoes - awesome. We’re doing great on tomatoes. Twenty in the polytunnel, 36 in the field. Now we just have to see what the weather thinks about us having tomatoes this year. Hopefully, it is more generously disposed than last year was. I have taken some precautions, but still, it’s 80% down to airborne funguses now.
Beans - behind. No doubt about it. I might end up without enough. Which would be bad.
The rest of the vegetables - kinda here and there. The pumpkins are doing bad. The greens are doing good. Nearly all the roots are in. If the last ones go in the ground in the next few days, that’s still ok.
The vineyard - The ground isn’t ready this year. I have put in 8 rows of sunflowers, 7 of quinoa, 10 of fodder beets, 1 of potatoes and some sweetcorn. Maybe 4, maybe 6. I think 4. We might only get sunflowers. Pulling up new ground and expecting it to be ready just a week or two later is crazy. Unless you have access to at least 100 tonnes of well rotted compost. Which I don’t. It’ll be better next year.
So, in summary, where we are is “the end of May”. It’s always like this.
Let’s have some photos.
And with that, I will sign off and wish you all a great week. If you ever have any food-producing questions for me, shoot them over. I’ve always got time for advice!
What’s going on in your garden this week?
Love you all
The Pirate Ben
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KW-22 It's oh so quiet
Ooh...freshly pressed sunflower oil - you can sign me up right away! And rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb...of course, I also have some ideas on what to do with rhubarb (sorry about the self-promo) https://myfreshattitude.substack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-rhubarb?r=ojqe7&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Your rhubarb delivers another year, looking good! Is that rhubarb wine in the bottles?