Spuds, spuds, and more spuds

I am hoping my little veggie garden will save me a bit of money this summer, even though I haven't put much effort into it. All the raised beds, structures, tubs and boxes are already in place from previous years of growing. Things aren't looking too bad, but I wont have the quantities I have had, and things are a little slow in getting started due to my manyana approach, I'll do it tomorrow.

There are five tomato plants in my mini greenhouse. It has a pallet base with a frame built round it and it's covered in shrink wrap.

Some beetroot coming along nicely in a plastic storage box.

I have two raised beds of potatoes, but they also seem to be springing up everywhere else as well. I bought the seed potatoes, two packets, from Poundland. I stuck my hand into the compost yesterday and had a firkle about, there are quite a lot down there, ready for picking in a couple of weeks or so.

This raised bed is where I scattered the carrot seeds, there are a lot of tops but I'm not sure there is much going on down below. A few spuds have sprung up amongst them. I put the trellis round the edges to keep the cats off.

A bed full of tomato plants. These are a little bit late, if they get any fruits I will be eating them at Christmas maybe. Plastic shrinkwrap around the sides to protect them from the wind.

The beetroot in this one look quite healthy, but maybe there are too many. Can't bring myself to pull some up so I'll wait and see what happens. I can always eat the tops as salad.

These are raddishes, will they won't they give me something to eat, I haven't done very well with these in the past. We can live in hope.

Aha, my one courgette plant and it's looking good. I love courgettes.

This bed is usually full of runner beans but I always get swamped out with them, so I have cut down a bit this year. They are sharing with mangetout peas. I am eating the peas every day now.

This is a £1 raspberry bush, quite a lot of fruits coming but they are a bit slow. I think it should be in the ground. My friend's bushes are full of berries now.

Some more tubs with black and red currants in them. There won't be many but it's a start. I might juice them into a smoothie because I don't like picking pips out of my teeth, and the skins might be a bit hard.

More red currants.

I have some salad leaves in a wash up bowl which I have been picking at, I need to sow some more as these are coming towards the end. I have some small cucumber plants but I may be a bit late with these, they are the wait and see variety ;o) All I do now is water everything, pinch out the new shoots from the tomatoes, and pull a few weeds up before they engulf everything.