Legumes and alliums

Bed 1, broad beans and peas

The germination rate of the peas seems to be about 75% (~45/60), of the beans 66% (12/18). I will plant a few more beans and peas in the gaps in their rows. This might extend the cropping period a bit.

Bed 7, onions and garlic plants

All but one of the onions now has at least some green shoot, even the two that got trampled. Most of the garlic is showing some growth, but only a few have got to the stage where chlorophyll is being produced, so most of the shoots appear whitish.

The first batch of leaves filled six bin-liners when bagged, and there are still leaves to fall off the trees. If I have nothing better to do, I could also go and rake up leaves from around the neighbourhood - there are quite a few oaks, and their leaves are thin and form leaf mold more quickly than the thicker cherry leaves I've mostly got in the garden.