It's all about trying to find room for those early sowings now. I got my celeriac plants out of their 5" pots and planted them in the compost/bean trench. I read somewhere they will like this luxury accomodation. The best plant was about 6" high so I'm expecting roots the size of footballs (not the usual ping pong scale).

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The bean trench isn't expecting a full quota of beans any time soon as the first sowing got half-slugged... In an increasingly elaborate companion system, the bean trench bed has wild asparagus down the middle. This is surrounded by sweetcorn seedlings. Then a row of seven tyres to house seven pumpkins. Then the bean trench (with celeriac in it). The bean canes will overarch the whole shooting match. Already things are looking a bit shaky, though. The sweetcorn got soaked in all the rain once too often and looks a bit off-colour, and only half the wild asparagus is showing. However I did have fun identifying the weeds that had emerged from the compost in the trench - onions, potatoes, a turnip, chamomile and something which looked like angelica!

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I cleared a bed of old kale plants - some of them were nearly 5' high - and planted out yet more alliums: shimonita bunching onions and some leeks (12 x 3 French varieties). The latter resembled fat chives, not the pencil thickness prescribed by the gardening authorities. It was the first 'follow-on' planting of the year and got me wondering what was going to follow the spuds and overwintered alliums that will be harvested at the end of next month... so I reached for the excel sheet and...fortunately there are about 400 remaining options, only half of which are varieties of chicory.