Considering I only got my vegetable patch fenced off on March 8th this year and so had no time to prepare the ground properly, just hurriedly digging it between the rain and leaving 7 bags of stable manure and 2 compost bins of compost on the surface for the worms to mix in as the weather was so cold and wet and I only just managed to get the potatoes in by Barley Saturday at the end of April because the heavy clay was so cold and claggy it has not done too badly. In fact I'm quite pleased with how it's done😀. All the first early potatoes have been dug up now and these are the produce of judt half a row.

As they were late going in I was worried I would be too late to plant a follow on crop but have just managed to get in a row of dwarf beans, which haven't come up yet and a row of peas. I did try to start some beans off in seed trays to give them a head start but something kept eating them, should have started them indoors, lesson learnt for next year. The peas were more lucky and they survived to be planted out in the next row. There are still a few to go in. It's the very end of the planting season for them so I don't know if they will produce anything or not but we shall see.

The tomatoes have taken over the mini greenhouse and the cucumber has loads of flowers but no cucumbers as yet, are they all male flowers? Also the peppers have been a bit crowded out, think nect year they can go back to being on the living room windowsill, they seem to like it there.

Tumbling tom tomatoes are the first to bear fruit, but I don't think I should have put 3 in a pot, next year they will have a pot each. Another valuable lesson

The strawberries did really well and so to did the onions.

And the baby beetroot are delicious.

The first beans are ready to pick😊.

Can't wait to try these.

It wasn't such a good idea to put the garlic with them, they were slow growing and the garlic didn't develop properly, although it was quite sweet and garlicky, just didn't produce lots of cloves.

And on the living room windowsill, the chillis are thriving.

Not a bad effort for a first season as a vegetable grower.