Veggie garden up-date

What a glorious day today.  We've been in the garden, sorting things out, and it's really beginning to look like a proper veggie garden again.  I remembered my camera, so here's the tour:

First up, the potato bed.  In previous years we've grown potatoes in bags, and had really good crops but we've gone back to planting them in the ground this year.  They've already been earthed-up once, so they seem quite happy there.  

Courgettes next, just 2 plants but they grow pretty big and always crop really well for us. 

At the other end of the raised bed from the courgettes are the peas, starting to scramble up the netting.  N has put some more peas in another container, so they should produce another good crop.  We've not grown peas before, so it'll be interesting to see how they go.

Against one of the fences is the runner bean trellis, and the plants have already started to twine themselves upwards.  Hopefully this year we will manage to pick the beans when they are young and fine - some of last year's were left on the plant too long and were a little bit stringy!

Alongside the beans is a small (homemade) planting box which contains carrots - the little seedlings are just about visible.  We'll be planting some more carrots in between the courgettes and the peas - there's a few spare inches there!

This is our 'covered bed'.  N made this 3 years ago when we tried to grow brassicas and needed a way to keep the cabbage white butterflies out.  We now use it for sowing seeds direct - we have a bit of a pigeon problem and didn't want them pecking the little seedlings.  In this bed is spinach, rocket, and Little gem lettuce.  

Finally, some tomatoes in the greenhouse (and 2 rather weedy-looking peas).

We grow veg in 3 raised beds, one of which has a hinged cover, and in a number of smaller wooden containers.  We also grow against fences, and in the greenhouse.  The courgettes and tomatoes were bought from local nurseries, but everything else has been grown from seed ourselves.  We haven't been too ambitious this year as we have hopes of moving so we have restricted the number and variety of plants.

Now we just need the right amount of sun and rain, preferably at the right times, and we can look forward to picking our crops and enjoying fresh, tasty home-grown vegetables.