This year's initial plan for the garden looks like this:
They're in pencil because I'll probably want to change them later. For instance, having just bought a pack of 50 onion sets, more of the root vegetable and allium section is probably now going to be dedicated to onions than I originally planned, and less to carrots and leeks. Also, I suspect I ought to move the tomatoes to use up some of the quarter of the garden dedicated to brassicas at the moment. I don't have a particularly good history with brassicas. We are very prone to both butterflies and slugs here. It's not the ideal position for tomatoes either, because it's the shady side of the garden, but when you do crop rotation in a garden, everything needs to take its turn on the shady side eventually.
The garden right now is looking messier, but more interesting than it previously has at this time of year.
I've left a lot of the root vegetables and brassicas in situ and am still harvesting them as I need them (although it's a bit nasty going out in the garden at this time of year, especially in the evenings, so I'm not using up as many of them as I should). We still have chard, carrots and beetroot waiting to be harvested. There are a few cabbages left. They didn't get very big, but they haven't suffered too badly from slug and caterpillar damage. The tall plant at the back is purple-sprouting broccoli. It hasn't produced any purple sprouts yet, but I live in hope that it still might, as I love that stuff and it's relatively expensive to buy from the shops.
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