However it has meant that everything else is now recovering after the heat wave. Having transplanted the squash and cucumber, they didn't react that well, especially with the heat, and some of the leaves had burnt and turned brown, however with this latest influx of rain new shoots have now appeared, so it seems all is not lost!
My onions are doing really well... the stems are now really thick and healthy, although not much sign of a bulb yet, fingers crossed! - for future I need to leave more room for potatoes - they're starting to encroach, this is because the rain has pushed the potatoes outwards not upwards.
As you can see I culled a bit and that patch on the left is where the rows vanished. My potatoes are looking very healthy!
Here you can see the full extent of the encroachment, I would also leave more room between the potato rows in future - it'll make harvesting easier.
These were the plants that I was donated, and when I first got them it was the incredibly hot patch and they didn't look as if they were going to survive, but they have flourished and are now outgrowing the net I have placed over them - mum's been away for a week and now she's back I'll get her help at putting a bigger net up - trying to do it on your own is impossible! The same goes for the peas, I can't believe how well they've grown!!
This is the healthiest of the squashes I transplanted (1 of 3) although you can see the burnt leaf there, but you can see the new shoot just above the string in the middle - apparently squashes do really well.
This is the only cucumber I got out of a whole row - doesn't help being a newbie and not knowing what you're looking for. Next year - everything is being started in biodegradable pots!! It's doing okay, not as well as I'd like though.
Again this is the only courgette I got from a whole row, I did have more but the weeds strangled them, again you can see the burnt leaf due to the heat, but it's working hard at getting there. As you can see weeds like growing close to my crops. That one didn't last long!
My parsnips are doing well - there are quite a few of them, and they're doing better than I was expecting them to - so yeah *fingers crossed* that they keep doing as well!
I had planted some garlic and they are doing very well, considering I got it off the market and it just sprouted I couldn't have asked for better.
The other side of my plot is beckoning as the weeds are huge now on that side, so I'll strim it and cover it in black plastic, probably till next year now (how depressing is that considering it's only June/almost July).
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