....Weekly Garden Update....09/07/24

We start this week up at the onion beds, the white onions from last year's seed are doing ok, they have been covered to prevent them being eaten, but the second sowing hasn't done so well yet....the red onions have bolted and many have gone to seed and need weeding too, I'm not sure I'd bother growing from onion sets again as this seems to be a common problem....down to the butternut squash, still small but doing ok, the tomatoes have picked up well in the green house and the chillies and peppers are doing well too, the currants, rhubarb and little apple tree look good in the fruit bed and the parsnips are also coming along nicely, Across to the baths where the dwarf beans, spring onions and carrots are all good, but some newly planted tomatoes are looking a little shocked....inside the greenhouse there are leek seedlings, peppers, chillies and lettuces all doing well, outside the chard is seeding and the tree spinach is growing nicely....a few alpine strawberries and the kitchen garden is really flourishing....there is garlic, cucumbers, spinach, leeks for seed, onions for seed, radishes for the pods and various lettuces and herbs are all thriving and we've also got some lovely flowers blooming for the bees....down to the cauliflower in the little cage, the beetroot and spinach in desperate need of weeding and the kale, cabbages and purple sprouting broccoli in the larger cage....potatoes have been a bit disappointing so far, the first ones I planted seemed to stop growing after I mounded them up, and I've cropped 3 bags so far with only about 11 spuds in total....we will see how the rest of them do in a few weeks....lastly the tomatoes in the polytunnel looking a bit strange but they are not dead yet so that's a bonus, I think they may have got too hot....
That's all this week folks, thanx for watching....