Update

Time for an update. My squash are rampant - will definitely be bottle cloching them next year and will set them a couple of weeks earlier too so they get a head start. The only one that isn't is the butternut - both I set were very very sluggish then one died and the remaining one is still way behind the other squash. All the plants have set fruit - one of my Jack o'Lantern pumpkins is already the size of a grapefruit so I am very pleased as I have always struggled with squash. The summer squash are producing fruit too and I already know which marrow is going to the cossetted to hugeness!

Runners are nearly at the top of their 8 foot canes and are starting to set beans - so are my first sowing of French beans. My sweetcorn is doing very nicely as are the underplanted French beans - I gap filled those today.

I now have all my summer and winter brassicas in except for calabrese and swede - those shall go in soon.

Today, I put in my leeks. The ones sown at the plot were much bigger than the ones sown in trays at home so this is the way that I shall do most of them in future.

We are now digging potatoes - much better than last year but the shear size of the tops this year has stopped me getting in to do as much earthing up as I would have liked so not expecting massive yields. My spring broad beans are yielding nicely but have now peaked so hopefully the summer beans will be ready before they finish. I am also picking red russian kale which appears to have gone mad.

My maincrop carrots have started germinating this week - at last. No sign of the spring onions that were sown with them though.