Just beet it

Looks like things have been going smoothly for a week or so now.
The beetroot and chard are coming up, the radishes are almost ready for picking and the lettuce is pretty much there too.

Still a bare spot at the end where the attach took place.

Karen, Jamie & Tom

Lettuce have another go

So, after last week's little set back we have some new additions to the lot. Some little crinkly, leafy fellows in green and red hues.

They seem to be doing pretty well, despite our efforts to scorch them by watering during in the midday sun (naughty naughty). The chard seems to be making an appearance too, so hopefully this will soften the blow when Karen returns from holiday to find her broccoli destroyed.

Karen, Jamie & Tom

Vicious killers

It's been a couple of weeks since I've updated the blog. You may think this is down to laziness and apathy on my part but it's taken me this long to get over the trauma caused by some vicious, monster killing machine.

Jamie said he thought he saw it bounding away and it was the size of an articulated lorry, with teeth like cricket bats.

Needless to say, it's decimated Karen's purple sprouting broccoli and we are mourning their loss.

Luckily, the rest of our seedlings were doing so appaulingly that they hadn't emerged when the beast attacked. We'll still have something to eat in a few months!

Karen, Jamie & Tom.