What's happening at the start of May

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Here’s whats happening in the moron gardner’s vegetable garden. It would be nice if I had more of a clue about what I was doing – last year was great for lettuce and herbs, but everything else was basically rubbish. This year I’m hoping that some lessons learned and a lot more investment will make for a much better harvest. Fingers crossed!

Inside the tunnel:

My oldest cucumber, two others died after the stems got too long and broke (while waiting for the tunnel to arrive; apparently the kitchen work surface is more shady than I realised):

Tomato:

Squash:

Some strawberries I tried to grow from seed last summer. I thought they had failed and so left the pots lying unwatered outside all winter. Turns out I was wrong and a couple of weeks in the polytunnel has seen them increase in size probably by 5 times:

More cucumber, the insurance policy seedlings:

Peppers and chillies finally appeared this week, thought it would never happen:

Hollyhocks have germinated:

Some lupins have appeared too:

Peas and mangetout have germinated well:

First radishes and lettuce (I really need to thin the lettuce I think, so many wee jobs to do…):

Spinach I think??:

Swedes are getting large. I transplanted them (what I thought to be) a bit early because their fibre pots were getting badly mouldy. I might be brave enough to thin them this week:

Newly acquired this week, rhubarb, never seen it in a shop before:

• 1 May, 2011
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