Finally things are starting to come together... except my camera, which is falling apart

Unfortunately my camera seems to have bitten the dust, so now pictures of all the work we've been doing on the plot, and the full-to-bursting coldframes containing newly sown beans, corn and squash in eager expectation of a Three Sisters planting scheme I'll be implemening in one end of my patch.

Even the brandywine tomato whose stem I managed to semi-crush in half with a tray of pots (a comedy Frank Spencer moment, were it not so tragic) is thriving and turning into a bruiser of a seedling.

The plot has finally stopped looking like a tramps' hideaway and begun to resemble a productive growing area once more. Not quite like the WW2 era poster pictured to the left, but you know what I mean.

My biggest hope this year is that the gooseberry bush  won't be chomped by sawfly larvae as per previous years. So far so good, but you can never be sure when the buggers are going to strike.

Comments

[marc]

I tried to do the three sisters planting system... but my corn has been overtaken by my climbing beans.... The cold weather really messed things up (or maybe it was my timing)

[Jane Perrone]

Don't worry, it'll come good: I think the corn will catch up. Anyway it's still very early really for both corn and beans to be outside.