Celery, Sweetcorn, Leeks & Raspberries

My next harvest will hopefully be the leeks. They're looking strong and healthy and growing straight and true which is always good. I just hope they taste as nice!

Celery is a new one for me, and the plants are very leafy. I'm hoping the stalks will toughen up and broaden out a bit: am I meant to group them together and put them in tubes to help them do this?

Sweetcorn, again, is another new one, so I'm pleased to say the 10 stems all look to be doing well. 5 in one bed are doing much better than the ones in the other bed and I think the only difference they get is the amount of water, so I'm guessing that's the reason why.

And last but not least, there appear to still be a few raspberries hanging around. I picked as many as possible in the hopes of fooling the plants into making more fruit, but I think I only convinced one of the plants!

No Room in the Patch...part 1

Well, the final little plug plants arrived, all be it a few weeks late, and I spent Saturday clearing and weeding the remainder of the beds and Sunday planting everything up. As well as the main beds, I tidied up the Nasturtiums with the hope of popping a few into a salad this week, and made sure everything in the greenhouse was 'up to date'. My one remaining job in there is to plant up the peppers: there are now strong healthy shoots and I need to find a pot in which to put them!

First up... the umbellifers! All my little roots. I planted the carrots early in the greenhouse, and despite everyone telling me that you couldn't uproot them and transplant them because the tap root would be damaged, I was very careful and it looks like ti's worked well! They are growing bigger and need harvesting soon before they get tough and lose their sweetness. I also found a few parsnips that I'd popped in with radish to mark the rows. Well, the radish have been eaten and a few parsnips survived, along with the extras I've grown on from the greenhouse. This week's new arrivals is the celery. All planted in and ready to grow!