My onions are disappearing!

 So this is my onion bed...

The bloody bindweed on our plot is unbelievable. A friend came to help me clear some today as I was nearly in tears after finding the bed looking like this. I've only been away a few days and it's ended up like this!

She said she's never seen bindweed like it before... not a good sign.

It's a mixture of bindweed and the dreaded marestail in this bed, taking over the space for my onions. So I spent a good hour or two carefully removing as much of the roots as I could. I'm sure I haven't got it all, and it's sure enough going to come back but for now it looks tidier.

This is my smallest sprout planting some sugarsnap peas next to the beans. Sadly he put around 10 beans in the same place and refused to let me move them so I think I'll wait until the shoot up before moving them!

I did intend to plant 2 peas per stick but my little helper decided otherwise.

You can see behind him that the grass needs cutting again. We hope to do this in the next week or so as the weather is meant to be dry.

My poor radishes

I haven't managed to get up to the plot for two days. I've just come back from a nighttime watering run and I'm devistated.

The plot looks a right mess!
Bloody creeper vines EVERYWHERE so much that you can barely see the onions and something has been eating my radishes!
I'm gutted.

All this lovely weather and a bit of rain has made everything go crazy. The weeds and the pests especially. I'm going to sit here with my tea of not home-grown food and wallow in self pity.

I think that flea beetles have had the radishes, though there was a lot of ants in the soil, could they be the culprits?

I'll go back up tomorrow with a fresh head to tackle the weeds and rip out the rest of the munched radishes.