The Edible Yard - bloody sunshine!

I never thought I'd complain about sunny weather, but it hasn't 'alf reaked havoc with my planting plans. It seems the sunny windowsills of no 29, combined with all this lovely sunshine, has brought on my seedlings a little early. My corn, courgettes, French beans and sunflowers are all running a full two weeks ahead of schedule! Lovely but that means they need to go in the ground two weeks early, and that means one thing - frost risk!

Fortunately the yard is very sheltered so I'm going to have to gamble on there being no frost in the second half of May, when these beauties will now get planted out.

I also had to sort out my hardening-off arrangements. Cue some more Heath Robinson greenhouse repairs! Just made this rather fetching door out of a cane, gaffer tape and plastic! The seedlings look very snug and very huge - they may have to be planted out even sooner if they don't slow down!

I'm having a bit if a time with my broad beans. Only a few germinated - the healthy looking specimens on the left of the pic. I decided to supplement them with some shop bought ones. FAIL! The buggers just wilt on me. Sadly, they are suffering from iceberg syndrome* so I'm just ignoring them! (* I always seem to plant one crop I'm just not bothered about and tend to ignore them and let them die. Last year it was the icebergs, this year it seems to be the poor broad beans)

Right, seedlings to tend and a veg cottage pie in the oven (made by me last night) to check on. NOM!