Six weeks since we last had pictures on the blog regarding the state of the small holding, today I went out (June 23rd, 2013) to take some photos of how the plants have done after a slow and wet start to the Spring. The poly-tunnel turned up, eventually, which enabled us to get some of the more delicate plants going.
In this picture you can see some Lacinata Rainbow Kale and squash growing. Not particularly delicate but the constant warm temperature in the poly-tunnel gives them a good start before being planted out.
Here you can see mainly tomatoes but inter planted with basil and peppers, see if you can spot them!
This bed closest to the compost has mainly herbs and insect-friendly flowers growing.
In the foreground here you can see our mahoosive strawberry plot, sorry,Freya's mahoosive strawberry plot! Behind you can see a couple of raspberry bushes, some spring onions that we have let go to seed and a on the "interesting" looking frame tayberry (black raspberries in Americanese).
In the foreground here peas, to the sides, potatoes and down the middle some calibrese.
True Siberian kale here!
This beautifully rich looking area has from left to right, rhubarb, tatties, carrots, more tatties then kale going to seed. Inter planted here is onion (biological control) and lots of marigolds (beneficial predator encourager!).
Sweet peas at the base of one of Andy's over-engineered structures the rest is as stated before tatties and brassicas going to seed.
This is another large bed of red ursa kale.
In the foreground more tatties in the background some green manure planted last year, clover, which self-seeded and grew this year.
And these are the stunning violet flowers on the clover.
Here we have on the left the parsnips going to seed, surrounded by potatoes and leeks; down the middle you can see leeks, nero di toscana kale and onions, borage growing on the right side.
Here we have two large sections being sheet-mulched in preparation for next year. This should kill back all the grasses and the weed seeds too that remain.
Here's our Mediterranean herb bed which includes thyme, rosemary, basil, tansy, wild strawberries, lavender, to name just a few, but until they are established we have had to encircle them due to...
...These new arrivals. They've been with us 4-weeks now should be good to provide eggs from Autumn onwards, except the cockerel of course!
