Whit Sunday

We are having a spell of lovely sunny weather (if the forecast is to be believed) so I made an effort and spent a bit of time in the garden today. Here is the status:
Deep box, left hand side - most of the potatoes are up now, and the Jerusalem artichokes. The poatatoes showed up when we were still having frost but at that point I had not filled the box with compost so I just piled more on and I think they should be safe enough from now on. The spring onions did not germinate at all so I re-sowed them today. The carrot week carrots only germinated about 50% and the rest of the carrots had quite a few missing stations so I sowed some more today - it is still plenty early enough to do this.
Deep box, right hand side - I transplanted the broad beans during the week, just because they were getting too tall, especially the Masterpiece ones. There is a full row of those, with four plants per square. Then three squares of Mendes broad beans. The parsnips did not start to show until this week and there were a few still missing today so I resowed in those positions, even though it is possible that the first lot of seed was still coming up. I put four broccoli plants in two squares - bought them at Garðheimar last week. That leaves two squares for runner beans and one for sweet peas. Those plants are ready to go in really, not sure if I will put them out tomorrow or wait another day. >/br> Shallow box, right hand side - this box is now full to bursting point. I pushed in four kale plants (from Garðheimar) amongst the garlic. The garlic experiment is interesting - the single cloves of Chinese garlic are not doing much at all. The bulbous cloves which i grew last year look great foliage wise, not sure if they are making a garlic bulb or not. The garlic cloves look OK too but again no way to tell what is happening below ground. The New Mexico aquilegia are doing fine, going to leave them where they are this year. I pushed in some freesia bulbs with them so interesting to see if they will flower or not. I added one square of spinach today, and one of mixed salad leaves (Ovation) - it says harvest after 21 days but I don't believe that. Three squares are taken up by onions (Hercules) which Elvar insisted on planting to go with the pepper plants indoors. he planted them and them seem to be coming up nicely.

I think that I started the beans all way too early this year so next year they should be two weeks later than this. I'm not sure if it is worth doing the carrots so early either. Some of them have one true leaf coming now, not convinced that I will get any carrots earlier this way and it may be just as well to wait longer next year. It does depend on the weather though. Indoors the various paprika and pepper plants are doing fine. Elvar's (from Natsha) is flowering already. The basil is looking good and I trimmed enough to make some pesto last week. The melon plants are storming upwards and I have tied them to canes. The Squash plant has emerged but doesn't seem very keen on life - wonder if it is too warm there? I also have a Bramly apple seed which is at least germinated and growing, and an orange pip which germinated but has not grown much in the compost.