Planting things

I managed to get things in a bit earlier than last year but a couple of weeks earlier would still have been better. It is always v difficult in the spring with so much going on and then spells of bad weather to get it all prepared and then things planted.
This year we added to the challenge by having a massive tree clearing bonanza early in the spring and then changing some of the borders round the beds. They old were raised, but the new are not - they are correlated aluminium buried round the bed, the idea being that they will be easier to mow around, possibly they will disappear altogether, we will see.

Tomatoes

More tomatoes (and there are two more in pots by the house)

Cucumber

Melon (I have planted one many years and they have never come to anything, but NEVER SURRENDER!)

Chili (or pepper really as we still have many dried chili from last year)

Brocolli and 'German Cabbage' which I bought by mistake as it was hiding behind the brussels sprouts (which I failed to buy)

Lettuce

 Needs mowing

Beet root.

Chinese leaf

Looking very neat and weed free for a moment

  Protection for the brassica

Runner beans have gone in round the tripod and peas on the other supports