Rain, rain and more rain

We’ve been having one of the wettest Junes ever here and although it is getting a little bit annoying now the garden is sure enjoying all the rain! I headed up to the allotment yesterday evening with my wellies and rain coat to pick some broad beans, I hadn’t been up there for over a week and the beans have producing pods like crazy. First things first though was to inspect the plot and to see what the slugs had done…

Surprisingly there wasn’t much slug damage despite them thriving in this weather. They had eaten two of my sunflowers which I’m not happy about and I even spotted one munching on my broad beans, high up out of the frogs view! But apart from that everything else had grown over the past two weeks and I’m glad to see all the tiny seedlings I had planted before going to Wales were looking big, strong and healthy. The sweetcorn is thickening up nicely and the brassica’s are filling out. The onions are also fattening up and will be ready or harvesting too, as well as the International Kidney potatoes which I’ll be peeking at this weekend. The courgette, grapevine and sweet peas are looking great and the broad beans are just producing amazing amounts of beans. This is the second large harvest of broad beans this year and I’m having to freeze them because there’s just so many! Not that I’m complaining at all, I do love broad beans…