May Bank Holiday and the days before

CD's make good bird scarers, Jo planted more Sunflowers and didnt want them eaten by pheasants etc. 
So far it's worked as each day we come down they havent been touched.
Jo also put crushed egg shells around each one to thwart the slugs & snails too. 

Leeks planted last year, were ready to dig up, so we could use the space for something else. 
Some were a bit small but they were still nice in leek & potato soup.

This patch at the lane end, hasn't been used for some time, I stored pallets, paving slabs & salvaged wood. Even had a few bonfires on here! 
But now all thats been moved to the new paved area at the front, I started digging it over to remove any weeds & roots, but luckily didnt find many. 

The strawberries in the fruit area are looking really healthy, some fruit is starting to turn colour so we hope in a few days to have the 1st harvest. In fact all our strawberries are in fruit, so it wont be long.

Trays full of leeks ready to go in, there are about 80 here. 
Check below to see where they went.

Tomatoes in the greenhouse, these are a strawberry tom type, we water daily & feed them too.

This is our herb & salad area, it is very popular with the bees as the chives are in flower and we have foxgloves too. 
The rhubarb in the background is the Victoria variety and this year its doing really well.

I love this patch, all in neat rows and most under netting, cabbages, brocolli (purple & green), cauliflowers and brussel sprouts, there are also a few rows of rainbow chard & some lettuce & radish too.

Back to the end patch I had dug over yesterday. 
I have now planted 76 leeks in 4 rows, I firmed the soil so I could make 4" deep holes with my dibber & placed a leek in each hole and watered well. They will be there for the best part of 6 months, plant on the longest day, harvest on the shortest they say (well almost in my case).  

This is where last years leeks were dug up from, Jo cleared the patch of weeds etc & planted 5 various Squashes! 

In this corner, by the other rhubarb bed and the compost bins, Jo planted dwarf beans, they dont need support canes, as they dont get very tall. 
The wigwam on the left is for Borlotti beans, sadly the 1st lot didnt make it after two nights of frost. We have more waiting to go in here.

So our plot is filling up, there is just one patch left, you can see on the right, more Leeks to put in and flowers too!

Thanks for reading/returning. Ian & Jo.