A visitor

I was away over the weekend, so have made a couple of quick visits this week to water and pick things. The broad beans have been excellent; I left the mizuna too long before picking, however, and it's a bit leathery. The pak choi and tatsoi are very tasty and I've ordered more seed to sow for a September crop.

I've had a visitor at the plot, one that has dug three holes in the unplanted end of the courgette bed. Going by the size of the holes, I'm inclined to think it was a fox. There is still a lot of scrubby land at the top end of the site that might house some foxes, despite the best efforts of the men labouring up there in orange "community payback" jerkins.

The runner and french beans are climbing the poles now, and the seeds I sowed directly into the ground have put up leaves too. Still no flowers on the potatoes. The mange tout are doing well, and I need to take some twigs up for them later this week. I plan to plant the carrots and beetroot seed at the weekend, put some more salad seed in odd corners, and do some weeding.