I also spent some time thinning out the carrot bed which I should have done a lot earlier in the bed. The idea is you plant loads of seeds, see what comes up, then thin out to leave a few with plenty of room around them. I neglected to do this which meant that the carrots got very chummy with each other as shown below.
By the time I had finished, the bed looked pretty well decimated, but the carrots that were left now have space to grow a bit. The ones I pulled out got split between myself and the lab at work as there were several pounds of reasonable sized carrots in there.
The leeks which had been growing in the coldframe (the second batch) had reached the limit that the seed tray would let them reach so I planted these out in the original leek bed. After a couple of weeks I can then replant them as per the instructions on the packet (you drop them in holes so the bottom half remains white and the top stays green). The large leeks below are the original ones, but there are now several rows of the much smaller ones if you look closely.
The dwarf beans are now at last starting to grow after sitting idle for the past couple of months.
The peas next to them are also making some cracking progress.
And finally the tomatoes have perked up and now look a lot healthier.
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