11th May

No messing about with pictures of my breakfast, or Koda the dog doing daft things. This week is a proper and comprehensive update on the vegetables that are currently growing. It will therefore exclude the likes of parsnips and sprouts that we will be eating at Christmas, but you will probably be surprised to learn that I will be sowing both this week!

I am going to give an estimate of when we may start harvesting each vegetable, but please bear in mind that this can only be an estimate as I can't predict the weather, or the impact of pests.

Dwarf French Bean - expected mid June

Going in the ground this week. This is my third attempt, and I'm now using different seeds from the first two attempts where my return from 150 seeds was 5 and zero respectively!

Climbing Bean - expected mid July

Going in the ground this week.

Runner Bean - expected early August

Some are connecting to the wigwam nicely

Others aren't doing so well so far

Purple Sprouting - expected early July

Green Sprouting Broccoli - expected early June

Lettuce - available now!

Tomato - expected mid June

Cucumber - expected late June

Courgette - expected end June

Butternut Squash - expected end August

Summer Squash - expected end July

A mixture of all three shown below, ready to be planted this week

Cabbage - expected mid June

Cavolo Nero - expected early June

Kale - expected early June

Radish - available now

Salad Onion - available now

Cauliflower - expected early June

Garlic - expected mid June

These guys have been in the ground for 9 months already!

Leek - expected end July

Strawberry - expected in time for Wimbledon I guess?

(If you are still with me then you have done incredibly well because I'm even boring myself now)

Onion - available now

Carrot - expected mid June

Beetroot - expected mid June

Spinach - expected mid June

Chard - expected mid June

Getting planted this week

Last but by no means least, the potatoes

Earlies expected early June

Charlottes expected mid June

then we'll think about the maincrops after that...