Soft-Fruit Trug

Daffodil bulbs, soft raspberries and a new trug to put them all in! I was in need of just the right sized collection vessel for things like tomatoes and raspberries; fruits where you only pick a few at a time as they're never ready to pick as one. SO, thanks to my friends who bought me this a a birthday pressie, along with gardener's handcream, scrub, some oak plant tags and a dibber.

Girls are great, aren't they?!

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!