The patio area is starting to become vertical gardening, with hanging baskets and behind them a trough with strawberries in. The potatoes are getting huge. I've had some Swift new potatoes, but I think I'll have to dispense with the Roosters as they are starting to fall over. The King Edwards went through a bad patch but are now looking better, and the Pink Fir Apples are looking good.
Garlic ready to harvest and rather too many tomato plants, now pushing at the top of the mini-greenhouse again. Tumbling Tom in the hanging baskets with nasturtium. The latter were lovely for a bit, then got the worst blackfly I've ever seen. Maybe they were too stressed (the nasturtiums rather than the blackfly) as those are not very big baskets. Bigger ones next year.
Onions are filling out, but a little slowly. Carrots, not unexpectedly, didn't really like the clay soil and its accompanying slugs. You have to give these things a try. Sugarsnap peas in the middle, with an undercrop of sorrel. Slightly unconventional. In front of those are french beans with the plastic slug-protectors, which do seem to help. I've now planted kohl-rabi among these... any pretence at planning has gone by the wayside! Behind are beetroot, but like the carrots and radish, they don't seem to like the soil. Also they are probably not getting enough light. It's very easy when you've only got a little plot to get very carried away. As summer turns to autumn I'll start sowing winter salads, and this plot will become herbs and salad.
The main garden looking even more verdant.
This is the same alpine trough as here. Evidently my weeding did do more good than I expected.
