Third sowing

Earlier this month I sowed broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia) for the third year in succession.  Three years ago I had two one-metre-square beds, and the rest of the plot was grass and weeds.  Now it looks like this:

The cavolo nero, endive, rocket and oriental greens are - or were at the start of this week, anyway - still producing leaves.  I tucked up the oriental greens with some fleece and hopefully they'll live through the cold snap.  Most of the other plants currently growing survived last winter's snow.

Last weekend I took the secateurs to the elder tree, and created a huge pile of twigs and branches to burn when it's warm enough to spend a couple of hours up at the plot.  I've still got half of it to trim, and need to take a saw to some of the thicker branches.   Behind the tree, in the no-mans-land between my plot and next door, there is a small pond, clearly the source of the frogs I met a few weeks ago.  I also cleared an immense stack of panes of glass from under the tree: somebody's over-ambitious greenhouse project.  Almost all of it was broken and is now bagged up ready to go to the tip.  All this effort is to get ready for the arrival of the shed, probably in the New Year now. 

The asparagus bed badly needs weeding - hopefully the frost will kill some of the interlopers.  I'm currently waiting for a bare-root Victoria plum tree to arrive; a friend has one in her garden and it is very fruitful, which will make up for the tiny gooseberry bush, still only producing fruit in single figures.