Phase 3 completed

Well - it took a while, but I now have about two-thirds of the allotment under cultivation. I've finished taking the turf off the next set of four beds, and the next step is to double-dig the new fruit beds and the raised beds where the potatoes will be (three of them this year!).

So far I have three sets of four beds, plus two groups of fruit beds marking them off from each other. One set of fruit beds is holding the strawberries - about to go out in January, as someone's advised me they don't like being mollycoddled too much. The other will hold blackcurrants, blackberries, gooseberries and rhubarb, if I can cram it all in!

Here's a rough idea of what it's all going to look like this season, with a bit of luck:

Root veg: Early carrots Leeks	Legumes: Early broad beans Early peas Late crop: Borlotti beans
Brassicas: Calabrese (early/mid/late season)	Potatoes: Duke of York (earlies) British Queen (second earlies)
Strawberry beds: Honeoye (early), Cambridge Favourite (mid-season) and an empty bed, this year to contain courgettes
Root veg: Mid-season carrots Onions	Legumes: Mid-season broad beans Mid-season peas Late season crop: more beans for drying?
Brassicas: Summer cabbages (white + red)	Potatoes: King Edwards (maincrop)
Blackberries: Two beds of thornless variety tbc, underplanted with rhubarb
Shed	Greenhouse (this year: tomatoes (cherry: Teardrop, plum: San Marino and beefsteak: Brandywine)
Hard standing for wheelbarrow etc	Soft fruit: Blackcurrants (Glen Parva), Gooseberries (Invicta), Rhubarb
Root veg: Late-season carrots Garlic	Legumes: 1 wigwam of runner beans 2 wigwams of climbing French beans
Brassicas: Brussel sprouts Winter cabbages (January King)	Potatoes: King Edwards (maincrop)