Veg plot progress.

Things are coming along nicely and we are finally not buying any veggies.  Chooks are laying two a day, with the third chicken coming into lay soon (her wattles are dropping!).  Got our first "cock a doodle doo" from the rooster, which made me roar with laughter as it sounded like a teenager whose voice is breaking!  Will have to call him "Kevin" a la Harry Enfield.

Pics:

Brussels Sprouts under runner beans.  This combo has worked really well and will be repeating this next year.  They seem to like each other!

French beans, kale and a rouge squash that snuck into the bean seed tray.

Melons!  Must have a dozen this size.  It's resting on a yoghurt pot to keep it off the damp soil.

Red cabbage under two sewn together scaffold nets to keep butterflies off.  Almost works...  They're growing well - almost a metre across.  Flea beetle ravaged khol rabi in the foreground.

Peppers, aubergines and a happy Pachypodium in the polytunnel.  The green-ish covering is my favourite thing, scaffold netting.  Also a monster orach on the left being grown for seed.  8ft tall, so it is!

Tomatoes at last!  A nice Gigante Liscio in the foreground with my name on it.

Muckle squashes for winter.  Dozens of these hiding under the jungle that is the squash patch.  Wish I'd remembered to write down what varieties they are...

Calabrese coming through a bit early...

Chooks scoffing patty pans - I'm glad some use can be found for them because they're tasteless and there's millions of them!

Fruit coming along nicely - apart from the redcurrants which are dying after the caterpillar blitz.











Rabbits coming up as soon as the gite's underpinned and I can get on with something that doesn't involve cement!