Right I've planted my runner beans and sunflowers? What can I plant now?

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This is our first year at the allotment, and to be honest we haven't got a bloody clue! Planted our beans without sticks, need to get some of those pretty sharpish!

Have dug another two beds, thinking of planting some sweetcorn and pease. What else can I grown thats easy and tasty and can you tell me how to grow them.

Thanks a million x

french beans are easy (and easy for kids to pick too). Courgettes are fab - but a bit prickly for the kids to pick. Leeks are always so lovely fresh, but mine look more like spring onions than leeks

My dad tells me that radishes are quite ridiculously easy to grow, so DS1 and I are going to give them a try (I have the opposite of green fingers, whatever that would be - Chernobyl fingers perhaps?).

sorry - just read second bit - start leeks off in a seed tray, then transplant when they look like long grass. Start courgettes in small pots of soil (I use plastic party cups), then transplant when bigger than about 3 inches tall. HTH

Radishes very easy and very quick.

Squash? We grow cobnut, which is a butternut type. Start them off like courgettes.

Pumpkins nice for the children.

Strawberries. Yum.

Most peas and beans are pretty easy, although some need more support than others and some attract blackfly.

It's a little late for potatoes, but if you can find some first or second earlies they ought to do OK (just won't be "early" I think) - dig a ditch, chuck them in, cover them up, as they sprout earth them up, when they look like flowering start digging them to eat! Fresh dug potatoes are lurvely.

Nasturtiums are incredibly easy, and both leaves and flowers are edible.

Oh - and french marigolds are easy and are meant to help deter blackfly (I think by smell as well as by attracting predators like hoverflies). I've got a vague recollection you can eat the flowers, but you might want to check on that before trying it...

tomatoes, could either sow seeds in pot or buy (beg?) small plants

I agree about radishes. I have some in a container and they're coming along nicely! I also have lettuce - the kind that you pick a few leaves and it carries on growing. Sweetcorn are HUGE plants I think but you can get baby corn - don't know how they'd grow though.