Nice pics captainhastings. It's great to see someone else who grows on the flat
. Are you a follower of Geoff Hamilton, with all the water pipe hoops? His advice is as good now as it was back then.
I picked our first cucumber today
. Small but delicious and perfect with looseleaf lettuce (mazur). Our tomatoes went into the tunnel soil a few days ago - they're a bit stretched having had to wait until warmer weather (now 3c forecast for tonight) but I know they'll green up and get a bit sturdier. I grow sakura which usually reaches to 8', and shows some resistance to and tolerance of blight.
I'm a bit behind though with planting out the runners, which are living up to their name and wrapping around eachother while still in pots. Good job I'm used to untangling yarn ! I sowed a 2nd tray of modules of beetroot ages ago - a single plant has come up. Oh well, the first 2 lots are doing fine outside. Squashes and courgettes are still in pots but they will catch up as soon as I can get them out in the soil. I do have a couple of outdoor raised beds, as an experiment to see if they are easier to cultivate than ground level crops (for me, they're not). One is half full of a very neat crop of chick weed obscuring the onions, some from seed, so that will be a lovely job for tomorrow