Has beans

Only popped down once or twice in the last few weeks, so on Friday last week I was confronted by weeds. Lots of weeds. Spent all day clearing the beds of the large ones and then did the spud, salad bed comprehensively. The salad has done really well, lettuces, witloof, land cress and herbs all doing nicely as are the spuds, though smaller than other years.
The beans. Oh dear. The broad beans, as expected, destroyed by black-fly. The runners are covered though appear to be still growing and the dwarf french beans are stunted. Sowed load more dwarf french and hope to rescue others and runners with a soft soap spray, bought a small pump/pressure sprayer for a couple of quid.
Onions look OK if a bit weed infested though the shallots are small, though there seems to be loads on each 'bunch'. Got a small bag of peas of the first sowing most of the second has been eaten but may get a starters worth, sowed loads more.
5 rows (short ones) of beetroot in as the cats had destroyed the beds with the roots in.
Plated out 3 x 10' rows of brassicas, 1.5 row of kale and 1.5 of 'cabbage'. Not too healthy looking (been at home for ages), we'll see. Couldn't net them properly as nets to small, so a flanking movement by the wood-pigeons followed by a full blown frontal assault of cabbage whites is likely...
Plums are swelling on two of the trees (one better than the other) though one is fruitless. The one which hosted the Spring 2009 Ant-Aphid solidarity conference.
Onwards.