First onions of 2012

This evening we lifted a couple of the onions that we planted as sets last September. They seem to have done very well. They are a good size and free of disease and pest damage. Well, the couple we lifted anyway... The variety is Radar and they are marketed as being especially useful for autumn planting. I'll lift and dry the rest in a week or so. They'll keep us going until the spring plante ones are ready.

I have made a cheese and onion quiche with them since bringing them home. I expect to be stuffing some of the rest at some point.

We checked over the rest of the plot while we were there. The tomatoes are growing very fast and we had to tie them once more. There was some black bean aphid infestation on the broad beans but we are dealing with that. The crop will be good we think (hope).

Beetroot and a row of carrots

Tomatoes