My plot is split into 8 beds with flower/shrub borders between each bed. Bed 1 is 3/4 covered by polytunnel 1, at the side of which is a small area with 3 Rhubarb plants gowing to provide us with some early fruit.Then there is a bed of Comfrey which I use to make an excellent liquid fertiliser, the remainder of the side of the tunnel is an Asparagus bed now in its third year and providing some excellent spears.

On the other side of the central path is bed two, which this year is the root bed, and will grow my carrots, in a covered frame, the beetroot in a bed the width of the plot and in another similar bed a mixed group of other roots. I have already sown the parsnips and a few rows of beetroot together with a row of turnips and some spinach.

JOBS FOR THE WEEK
1 Erect frame for carrot bed - Done
2 Sow carrots in bed - Done
3 Transplant hardened off onion sets out - done
4 Prepare brassica bed and erect frame for protection
5 Sow more seeds and continue with successional sowings of salad crops
6 Earth up potatoes as they come through the ground. - In progress
7 Finish digging the onion/leek bed. - Done

WORK DONE THIS WEEK
Sunday
Transplant some lettuce seedlings into modules.
Transplant several types of brassicas from modules into small pots.
Soak all transplants in trays of water until they are well watered.
Erect carrot frame and rake out ready to sow seed.
Transplant onion sets out of modules into onion bed after raking and levelling the soil to provide a suitable bed.
Transfer cauliflowers, cabbage and lettuce from the polytunnel into the cold frame to harden off before planting out in the ground.
Last but not least water all seedlings in the tunnel, coldframe and the plants growing in the tunnel borders.
Monday
Sow seeds of autumn and winter cauliflowers and calabrese in seed trays in the tunnel.
Water tunnel crops and seeds/seedlings and water the coldframe.
Fill water butt in the tunnel.
Tuesday
Tie the new growth on one branch of the flame seedless grape in polytunnel 1.
Sow carrots in part of the carrot bed.
Water again - a non stop job this now for the rest of the summer.
Wednesday
Sow climbing peas in modules.
Weed Asparagus bed.
Spread manure onto side bed in tunnel 2.
Spread manure onto recently dug area on bed 8.
Water.
Thursday
Transplant seedlings into larger pots.
Water.
Friday
Finish digging onion bed.
Water.
Saturday
Transplant seedlings from modules to small pots.
Water.

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK
Asparagus on a daily basis.
Leeks once or twice a week.
Purple sprouting broccoli once.
Rhubarb one picking of each variety.
Pick some spring cabbage.

FROM STORE
Potatoes
Beetroot
Onions