Planting out sweetcorn, it must be summer!

It feels very summery to be planting out the sweetcorn, which was mine and my 7yr old sons main job this evening (alongside weeding of course!) Sweetcorn was one of our favourite crops last year, we could have eaten double what we grew and still have wanted more, so we have about 30 this year. It will feel like a very long wait 'til harvest now haha... we popped some in the childrens beds too, they will love harvesting their very own cobs, especially if they can eat it there and then!

Sweetcorn 

We also planted out some dill and checked on all the seedling popping up at the plot.
Lots of the carrots, parsnip and beetroot are showing, although there are definately gaps, mainly the beetroot so I may have to resow in places.
The beans all seem to be sprouting nicely and I popped a few more seeds in where there were gaps, so we should have lovely full teepees very soon.  The module sown ones here should be ready to plant out by the end of the week, it will be interesting to see if the end up behind the direct sowing or not.
The squashes are having a bit of a sulk after being planted out. Hopefully they cheer up soon, we want lots of lovely squashes to see us through winter! I do wish I had sowed cucumbers in the kitchen much earlier, I don't want them to be unsuccessful as it is one of the only things we grow that the children love! I will make a note and do my best to remember next year.
The best part of our visit of course was the harvesting. As the garlic is suffering with rust we pulled up the handful that had dropped over, and we have cloves, yay. I cannot tell you how exciting this seem. We popped them in the shed to dry out and I am sure the rest of the crop won't be far behind. We picked a few more strawberries, although it seems the birds and slugs are nibbling (we really must sort out proper covers and lay straw to help) a huge bunch of sweet peas, they are so plentiful, we get a bunch every few days! Some more curly kale, probably to go straight in the freezer and our first harvest of mange tout peas. The Golden Sweet are ready to start picking.

Golden Sweet.

We may have also picked a pod of the Havel early peas,  and eaten them straight from the pod. They were heavenly but shhhhhhh don't tell any one..........

Pretty flowers on Giant Bijou.