Gooseberries forming on the bushes

Bedfordshire Champion onions planted on Friday (just as we begin to use the final bag of onions from last year’s harvest).

Broad beans will be ready to harvest in just a few weeks time and beyond the beans there are the onions, leeks and eleven rows of main crop potatoes. Further on from the potatoes there is space for all the squashes and cucumbers and courgettes. The gardening cycle has a comforting rhythm and the jam and preserve and pickle making slips into the pattern and will fill the depleted shelves with jars to be consumed through the winter and early spring.