May update

The plot is coming on really nicely now:

The spuds are beginning to emerge, onions are starting to grow as are the peas. To the far left, next to the onions we have started turning the soil for our wildflowers. The flowers I grew from seed are ready to go out now. We have also planted a few sunflower plants against the pea netting. The two varieties we have grown are "Moonwalker" a compact multi-headed variety and "Velvet Queen" a dark crimson coloured one.

In the raised bed, germination rate of the carrots has been very poor and the beetroot is non-existent:

I have added some radishes to make up for lack of beetroot! I suspect the lack of germination is because I used some out-of-date seed. In the other side of the raised bed the lettuces are growing away happily:

As you can see these are mostly lollo rosso with a couple of oak-leaf type lettuces. I have also added a couple more cos lettuces since this pic was taken.

The strawberries are growing away happily and a few have flowers on them:

The black fabric sheet was a complete waste of time though...it has been ripped to shreds by the wind. I think we will replace this with some black plastic.

Since re-potting the cayenne chilli peppers 3 weeks ago, they have grown a huge amount and now far exceed their supports:

We have been putting them out during the day to try and ensure the flowers are pollinated. Our greenhouse is still chock full of plants:

The leeks are beginning to fatten up a bit now they have been potted on. The french beans, runner beans and sweetcorn (bottom right of pic) are being hardened off and will hopefully go out next week. We have already had our first harvest .... a bucketful of radishes, cherry belle .... now replaced with some little gem lettuces The spring onions (white lisbon) in the green tub to the far left of the pic look like they will be ready soon.