Despite a bit of a spurt of effort in the garden a couple of weeks ago, there is a feeling that the garden is slipping out of control as the continuing miserable weather has meant that desk-based (and other inside) jobs have taken priority.  However, a couple of better days at the end of this week encouraged some weeding, pruning and mowing.  We can even see out of the bedroom window again, having got round to giving the wisteria another haircut.

The carrots in the home roots bed have been rather disappointing this year, at first we got very low levels of germination and then the seedlings were rather swamped by the neighbouring parsnips.  The first few we harvested were also quite badly forked and split – no problem for immediate use, but no chance of keeping.  The forking had roots running very close to the surface so I wonder if this was down to the plants searching for water back in April/May when it was dry and we were watering to keep things alive.  The last batch however, looked rather better as shown in the examples below.  It will be interesting to see how these compare with the container grown ones that we will be harvesting next week.

Last of the garden carrots