Second harvest and remodelling the veg bed

Our second harvest came at the beginning of July. By this time all the strawberries had been eaten but we still had an abundance of cherries left! I can say that not one cherry went to waste they were awesome! The beetroot kept coming which I gave away to my family. I left some over for myself to pickle and make some soup with. I picked the remaining good broadbeans and pulled up the plants as the blackfly was really getting bad and they were affecting the beans. The lettuce was starting to go to seed, I decided to pull up the one decent lettuce and I put the rest into the compost bin. I did get plenty of lettuce which my Guinea pig ate most of. Lettuce is her favourite along with cucumber. We harvested the last of the radishes, they were okay but a little woody. We picked the two courgettes that were ready, I'm not sure why one had a yellow end though? The spring onions I was delighted with! They were great in potato salad!

Here is a photo of the beetroot pickled at a later date, to get the recipe click here

After we pulled up the broadbeans and harvested the onions we started on a project that we had been wanting to do. The project was to divide the large vegetable bed into smaller beds. The reason for this was that as we were tending to plants in the large vegetable bed we had no choice but to tread over the soil to reach them. This compacted the soil. We have clay soil which we have been trying to break up using lots of compost, but we needed to help the soil condition by not treading all it. After a trip to our local garden centre we picked up some decking boards that were ideal to create smaller beds with.

We planted some potato tubers in the newly created bed. I'm not sure if we will be lucky enough to get some potatoes at Christmas.

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