WINNING!

Show tent

2nd Place for my beans

Not placed for my toms - boo!

Winner!! Courgette!

3rd place for my Banana Squash

Winner for my Beetroot!

No place for my sweet peas in a jam jar

Kate's cakes

Kate's sunflower lion

Some more photos of the plot:

Butternut squash going wild

Flowers

Sweetcorn

French beans

Runners

Squash patch

Clearing ground - where beetroot were

Toms

Hacking back the raspberries

A rather 1970s photo of my flowers

 Last but not least:

Best shield cup ever! the 'Ron Vickers Shield for Heaviest Dressed Onion'

Found my camera!!!

Managed to find my camera - actually my GF did!

However, still had these photos left to post from my phone - enjoy:

Sweetcorn block

Cherry tree and flower patch

Foxgloves

Sweetcorn

Climbing beans

Potatoes!

Broad beans and chives

Onions and flowers

Sunflowers and cosmos

Root  veg (and a bit weedy)

Tomatoes

Flowering tomato

Tomato greenhouse

Raspberries

Aerial plot shot

All a bit of history repeating?

Seems we are either repeating the April of last year (excluding volcano) or 2007 or even 1989 - either way it appears that the very long dry spell and warm temps may mean a very wet May. Back in 2007 we had a very warm and dry April (record breaking) then record breaking May for wet.

Anyway - here are some photos:

Broad beans

Sweetcorn

Wild Flowers

Sunflowers

Cosmos

Sweet Peas

Basil

First ever cucumbers

Peas

Rocket [left] Spinach [right]

Potatoes and Radish together [at last]

Onions

What a warm week!

Certainly got warmer - about 20°C. Did lots of sowing last weekend and the Cosmos came up yesterday. The Coreopsis came up today - so 4 to 6 days to germinate.!!

Yesterday bought loads of bird stuff to try and attract them onto the plot - natural bug killers! Also spent some time building a bird feeding station - some 6ft high! Leaving yesterday - noticed a Great Tit and 2 Robins.

Sowed some carrots in bins - so no chance of carrot fly and the soil is pretty much stone free. Fingers crossed for 3rd year lucky. Put my large tomatoes in their final resting place - in sunken pots in the new greenhouse - surrounded by gravel

Lotty hub

Tomatoes in

Cabbage, Cauliflower, Swede, Beetroot and Swede

Broad beans and Onions (hanging baskets on poles) 

Homemade feeding station

New bird box 

Carrot bins

Rocket Spinach Lettuce

Hanging baskets 

Cosmos up

Peppers, Sweetcorn, flowers

Very sunny but dry plot