Sweetpeas.Took this photo after i had stripped the plants to make several bunches of sweetpeas to take into work for my freinds,it is my birthday this Sunday so i took them in instead of cream cakes along with 3 carrier bags full of mixed veg,well they all tell me they are on diets :)
My youngest son Lewis doing a bit or should i say a lot of strimming for me,the weeds grow faster than the veg!!!
Yellow courgettes,had 9 courgettes off this one plant so far,yummy.I am also growing 'black night' which is a dark green variety.

These are one crop of my 3 varieties of sweetcorn,this one is 'minipop'.I have planted a pumpkin plant in the middle of them which was given to me a couple of weeks ago,it as grown a fair bit since i took this photo last week.

This is one of my salad boxes,they are approx 36" x 48",i got them from hubby;s work,they are fold up crates that also stack onto each other to make deeper boxes...have 12 so far!In this box i have 3 rows of mixed salad leaf lettuces and 3 rows of baby beetroot.When thinning out the lettuce i pull the whole plants out and use them allowing the other plants to grow better.


Here i have beetroot growing in the forground followed by parsnips then red onions and behind them are hundreds of shallots.The rows are approx 20ft long....goodness knows what i am going to do with it all!!!Think i best save glass jars from now onwards for pickling.

Hello All,
Well what a great June it has been so far.I have already picked one and half carrier bags full of peas and loads more yet to come.The peas are felthem first which was sown late winter.I have five other varieties on the go!!!!
The broad beans are nearly ready too,wish they flowered all year round because they smell absolutelt gorgeous.
I was amazed to see how quick my broccoli had grown,i am sure i only planted it out in April.....i have cut the main heads of several plants already,lots of side shoots to develope.It melts in your mouth,bootifull :)

Grass snakes

Just come accross a family of grass snakes on my allotnent.They are nesting under the pond liner...because the pond is not at the full level the liner is easy to lift up.One of the snakes swam accross the pond and slithered under the liner,tht is how i found the nest....i had to be brave and lift the liner up with one hand while taking photos with the other....yikes!!!!