In the greenhouse

We have rain now, but it was dry earlier

Successional sown carrots and some Parsnips

Peas, climbing French beans and some winter cabbage underneath

But there's nothing like eating produce you have produced yourself, even if you do have to remove the bits chewed by slugs and caterpillars first......................... A tale from around 20 years ago........... family sat at the table eating dinner. wife to children," your Dad grew the veggi...

I too have started removing those leaves that are shading the trusses, I have in the past at the end of the season removed all of the leaves and the plants just threw out more. I don't think you need to be too fussy, the plants seem very robust, my option is if it's shading tommies, it's off!!.

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5 does seem a lot, even for a relatively small fruited plant, mine do vary, for example the breakfast ones only have 2 trusses as they have huge amounts of fruit per truss. I have 3 on Ailsa Craig as they are a bit bigger and 4 on the smaller ones like GD and Red Pear.

Goldfinches eat much smaller seeds than those in Lupins, the Nyger seed we buy from the shops is the sort of thing they like.

I'm retired, so the hours put in to the garden have only changed a little(no fishing done until this week), I always have a reasonable supply of seeds and had manure and compost in ready for the season to start. I did run out of Multi Purpose Compost, but a local GC delivered me some which was helpf...

5 packets of seed, all different varieties sown in succession, so hopefully we will be eating them in smallish quantities, last year I left them in the ground and covered them with fleece and they lasted right through the winter, quite a lot went into carrot cake as well as dinners and soups.

The carrots are going well

More room in the greenhouse now the peas are finished, that experiment worked very well.

On the shelling peas, it was my job when preparing the veg for Sunday dinner, me and my Dad in the garden and Mum in the kitchen, don't forget the mint was an oft heard shout down the garden. Over 60 years ago now.

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A Whitethroat, seems to be good numbers this year.