Carrot time!

Starting to pull some carrots now and although they are not fully grown they are big enough to be worth pulling. The chicken manure did the trick and the leaves greened up nicely and the carrots grew a bit more too. Glad I decided to do that. Next year I will just mix some into each bed in the spring.


Here are pictures of yesterday's and today's pickings. The purple sprouting broccoli had very wooden stems but the other one was fine.
Each bean pod had about 4 or 5 good sized beans in it. These were the Masterpiece beans which lived up to their claim of being fast at growing. The Medes ones need a couple more weeks I think but do have a lot of pods on :-)






































This shot is of the two left hand boxes. The potato plants are just beginning to yellow. I'm very happy with the growth this year. I think I could have planted the potatoes a bit deeper - and earlier would have been nice too.
The onions did very little. I don't think I will have onions next year.
The strawberry plants from seed are still small but have afew flowers so it will be interesting to see how they do next year - if they survive the winter.











This is the deep box on the right. You can see how well the beans are doing. The parsnips are coming on slowly as might be expected. One or two may actually be a decent size.

























This bed looks a bit of a mess. One of the purple broccoli plants I pulled up as it looked sick. It had white grubs around its roots. Some of the others do not look to great either.
The swede are getting to an edible size but I will leave them longer. The slugs seem to like their leaves though.
The red cabbage is far from hearting-up. These were plants from Hveragerði and may just have been put in too late.
Spinach was disappointing, did not get so many leaves off it this year I think. I may look for a better type.