Mid Spring

In the last week everything has started to boom. The bed below, the lower leg of the E shaped bed, has the Mortgage Lifter and Roma tomatoes. The Mortgage Lifters to the left are about 600mm high with stems as thick as my thumb. If they keep going like this they may well be monsters as advertised.

The marigolds are there for a couple of reasons. They attract bees and wasps as well as, apparently, protecting against root nematodes in tomatoes. They look good too. There's plenty of basil amongst the tomatoes, a good companion plant plus you can never have too much basil in your life. The bed below, bed three, has the Sweet Bite and Grosse Lisse tomatoes along with the eggplants. This was the bed full of green manure during winter. That gold/green patch to the left is Golden Oregano. Maybe not quite as flavoursome as the standard oregano but worth growing for looks alone.

Below are the zucchinis. They're in the middle part of the E which is in the no-dig section. In the last few days their roots seem to have escaped the little pockets of soil and are into the composted manure/straw layers. They are growing like crazy now. The small things in the middle of the four zucchinis are cos lettuce. These grow quickly enough to utilise this space before they are overwhelmed.

Next are the Golden Nugget pumpkins these are in bed two, where I grew some green manure during winter. They are coming along fine as well and are just showing their first little flower buds.