It's coming along.

It feels like slow going, but there's been some movement in the kitchen garden. We managed to find enough soil from around the garden to fill just over two beds and last week picked up a car full of quite smelly organic compost. We've now filled four beds and have three planted up.

The seedlings in the conservatory aren't doing too well, which is probably down to the poor potting compost we used, so we need to get them planted out as soon as possible.

First harvest

 Bed One update - from back to front:

• 3 rows of broad beans
• 1 row of rainbow beetroot (Rainbow mixed)
• 1 row breakfast radish - harvesting has started
• 1 row red beetroot (Perfect)
• 3 rows of heirloom carrots
• 1 row breakfast radish - harvesting has started
• 1 wide row of spring onions (Lisbon)
• 1 row of mixed salad leaves
• 1 row of rainbow chard - only 4 have germinated so will plant more

Bed two - from back to front:

• Half a bed of onion sets - 40 onions (Sturon)
• 1 row of lettuces
• Down the length of the bed a trellis, two rows of peas (early Onward)
• 2 courgette plants, to be grown upright, 1 green and 1 yellow
• 1 row of lettuces
• 2 courgette plants, to be grown upright, 1 green and 1 yellow
• 1 row of lettuces
• 1 row of radishes (round blush)
• 1 row of spring onions (pink)

Bed three - from back to front:

• 9 rows cauliflowers in 3 rows, interspersed with lettuces and spring onions
• 2 rows of lettuces
• 1 row of 3 tomatoes plants
• 1 row of radishes (round blush)
• 3 rows of, rescued from around the garden, strawberry plants