What a good weekend for getting work done, neither to hot to work nor wet or windy. The best bit is that everything is growing well and making up for lost time.

Every time I walk past the second early potatoes I have to stop and look at the plants - they have grown to a good size but the colour is so vibrant and the marking on the leaves is so pronounced that they shout at you look at me. All the crops planted in the last two weeks are now growing away after settling in for a few days.

The tomatoes planted in tunnel 1 have more than doubled in size and are looking good. Most of the seedlings are now in cold frames hardening off so the side border in tunnel 2 is ready for some of the onions to go in - I know it’s late, but they still produce a reasonable crop.

I must make the effort to clear the weedy areas on the plots this week and try to get the remaining areas dug over and ready to fill with the seedlings in the frames. The strawberries are filling up well and should soon be ready for picking, but the asparagus is now nearly finished and needs to be left to build up the roots for next year.

JOBS FOR THE WEEK

1. Clear weedy areas
2. Dig over rest of bed 8
3. Dig over remainder of bed 7
4. Plant out last of onions
5. Plant out celery
6. Plant out more lettuce

WORK DONE THIS WEEK

Sunday

1. Away

Monday

1. Water
2. Weed beds 8 and 7
3. Dig part of flower bed

Tuesday

1. Water
2. Dig bed 8
3. Plant out celery
4. Plant out onions
5. Weed by compost heaps

Wednesday

1. Plant onions in tunnel 2
2. Plant out rest of onions in bed 8
3. Plant out lettuce
4. Weed tunnel 2
5. Weed garlic
6. Mulch sweetcorn with leaf mould
7. Water tunnels

Thursday

1. Water
2. Start digging bed 7
3. Weed Brassica frame 1
4. Weed onions on bed 2
5. Plant savoy into 2 litre pots as I have no room for them in the frames.

Friday

1. Dig area round compost bins
2. Weed asparagus bed
3. Tidy round back of tunnel1 and cover with leaf mould
4. Weed garlic and strawberry beds
5. Water

Saturday

1. Continue digging bed 7
2. Weed climbing peas and beans
3. Mulch between pea and bean canes
4. Protect young peas from pigeons
5. Water

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK

1. Asparagus
2. Peas
3. Broad beans
4. Spring onions
5. Lettuce
6. Carrots