Veg Successes and Things That Might Go Better Next Time

The peas are growing brilliantly. Who knew?
We have picked and enjoyed lots of fresh peas.

There are still many more peas growing. They were certainly worth whatever I paid for the packet of seeds

Not doing so well are the runner beans, it has been a little too warm and certainly way too dry, the flowers we do have are few and far between and only a few on a stalk that would normally have a dozen flowers on. Such a shame as we love runner beans.

The RHS gave wonderful advice on planting the beans and peas (legumes) together. 
When they were all so small it was too hard for me to imagine how big they might eventually grow. 
I planted a couple of spaghetti squash and pumpkin plants in the bed too! 
Ooops!
The broad beans have not yet finished producing, I had thought they would be done by now, and the peas are just happy as can be. 
The pumpkins plants are also enjoying this little bed and are growing rather large. This plant has escaped over the edge of the wood border and the two little pumpkins appear to be quite happy growing.
I am impressed, you may get a little fed up with the frequent progress of their growth.

Our veg beds are very precious to us and when the blackbirds kept coming in among the baby lettuce and eating the worms we put some netting over just to stop the theft of our worms. We have so few as the soil is so poor that we felt we needed to protect the ones we had. 

The bonus of this appears to be that the lavae of the ladybirds were able to hatch, grow and pupate uninterrupted and now we have lots of ladybirds, which is good as we have oodles of blackfly on the broad beans.

So for next year, growing the squash somewhere else is to be remembered,