Photos Taken 12th April 2021
Bed 1 contains an assortment of salad. I've run out of room so I'm almost hoping some of them die off lol. Better planning required next year!
Close up of bed 1 shows not much growth.
I'm using coffee grinds sprinkled around the plants to deter slugs.
Just a few radishes in bed 2 so far. I'll be adding more root veggies for salads in a few weeks.
Bed 3 is half first early potatoes and the other half second early. Still no sign of life on the soil surface. Planted about 4 weeks ago.
Bed 4 is half main crop potatoes and the back half brassicas, so far just purple sprouting broccoli and cabbages.
They haven't been coping too well with the polythene cover so I've popped a large propagator lid over them to give them a little more breathing room.
Side Bed 1 has a few healthy looking pea plants.
And a beer slug trap.
Side Bed 2 has a few broad beans that seem to be resisting the frost nicely.
Overview shows the final four beds (5 - 8) which are still empty awaiting the last frost which should be any day now . . . Until then I'm covering the beds with this polythene sheeting over night. Whilst it's definitely keeping the freezing temperatures at bay it does seem to be crushing the plants and making them a bit too damp and dingy. I'm thinking this isn't a great solution for above ground plants. Next year I'll try to construct some polytunnels for the salad bed or maybe try to delay planting out until later in the year but that will involve investing in more seeds trays. Perhaps sow less early salad seeds so that pop bottles can be used to protect plants from frosts without crushing them.