By Phil, on May 27th, 2012% I suppose I could just post new stuff and maybe no-one would notice the one-year hiatus… but no.
Last year fizzled out, bad weather, lots of stuff didn’t grow, what did grow got blight / white rot / whatever, motivation left me.
Over the winter I dug over most plots and covered with leaf mold. We decided to make life easier by planting half the plot with fruit bushes that don’t need too much doing each year. Didn’t quite it ready in time to get them in before the growing season started, but maybe the opportunity to be sure that all the perennials are dug out from that side is a good one.
Here’s the plan for 2012:
As of May 27 we have planted the potatoes (beds C&G), strawberries (bed G/H), beans (broad, runner and dwarf & climbing French) (bed E — along with lettuce and raddish), parsnips, perpetual spinach, & beetroot (bed D). On May 27th we planted leeks (edge of bed C) and sweetcorn (bed B) from pots that we had started at home. We have some courgettes, red cabbage and sunflowers at home. Also sowed some sunflower seeds at along the road at bed A and nasturtiums along the side near the public path.
The pots are just showing in bed G; the broad beans are up, but small; the runners and climbers are just showing, but no sign of the drawfs, so sowed one more at each station; the strawbs are flowering. Too early to tell about the others.
By Phil, on April 30th, 2011% Made compost trench in bed A and sowed half-row of French beans (Fasold) on it. Sowed half-row of Peas in bed D next to path. Sowed spinach in bed B.
Covered bed J and neighbouring fruit area in thick cardboard and leaf mulch to keep down weeds (had been a lot creeping buttercup and couch grass).
By Phil, on January 29th, 2011% 
Bed A : Onions
Bed B : Peas & beans
Bed C : sweet corn and squash (failed)
Bed D : Roots
Bed E : Brassica
Bed F : comfrey
Bed G : potatoes
Bed H : potatoes
Bed I : bare then green manure
Bed J : artichoke + bare
By Phil, on August 22nd, 2010%
By Phil, on May 22nd, 2010% Very warm and sunny.
Planted various dwarf and climbing French beans on compost trenches in bed B.
Planted carrots (Fly Away) in bed D, covered with fleece to protect from root fly.
Netted the black and red currants
Harvested the last of the purple sprouting broccoli and dug out the plants in bed I
Watered the onions planted on Tuesday, they look a bit droopy but should survive. Leeks from 1 may are just showing.
By Phil, on April 25th, 2010%  What was where in 2009 Bed A & B : potatoes
Bed C: Onions & garlick, plus odds and ends like parsnip and salad later
Bed D: Sweetcorn and courgette at one end, leeks at the other
Bed E: peas and beans, with some lettuce and salad in between
Bed F: comfry (permanent)
Bed G & H: planted various squash, but they failed. Had load of compost buried and was kept covered w/ black plastic.
Bed I: Brassica, incl. purple sprouting broccoli which overwintered to 2010.
Bed J: Globe artichoke + sorrel (permanent), planted black currant off-shoot from Donald in summer .
Fruit: Rhubarb x 2 (one near fence ~1yr old, not cropped) Red currant and Black currant had been over pruned so didn’t bother cropping, Strawberries in containers by currants, Blackberries and raspberries.
In November planted:
Bed A: onion sets (failed, frost) and garlic
Bed B: broad beans (only two survived) peas (failed) and lettuce (did surprisingly well) under fleece.
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