After a hot and dry April, May turned out to be increasingly different and definitely cooler and wetter.
It has been a great help for the allotment, both for the already planted crops and the newly sown seeds, so hopefully the final harvests won't be too badly affected by almost a month of drought conditions.
Most recently, the beans have all been planted out (dwarf and climbing varieties), and successional sowings of beetroot, radishes, carrots, chard. I've also sown two double rows of peas in the hope that finally we'll see some success. The pot grown seeds didn't germinate well enough so I bought new season peas and we'll hope for better with those.
The spinach and chard are growing well, the pak choi showing signs of something or other attacking it - probably flea beetle after checking on t'internet. I'll need to try some form of protection, as for the carrots once they germinate.
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