picked this week

courgettes,potatoes,runner beans, broccoli,tiny cauliflower,a few peas,green tomatoes,mangetout peas- though number is reducing

a garden of blue and gold

calendula and platycodon

lavender and nasturtiums

montbretia

potatoes

have tipped out our potato bags as the blight was spreading their way. a bit of a mixed bunch - but, as they weren't seed potatoes but the sprouting bits cut off when peeling, not so bad.

picked this week

green tomatoes, runner beans, mangetout peas, blueberries,courgettes,some peas- not as many as last week, beetroot, some rocket and chard for salads,potatoes from a bag -about a meal's worth

planting and sowing

pulled up some spinach stumps and planted out some mixed broccoli - some Italian sprouting to crop in Autumn and some Early Purple for next spring. In gaps left after radish, have sown beetroot,swede and spring onions

pumpkins must like the rain

hopefully heading for a good pumpkin crop. some are coming a little strange - the red kabocha seed has thrown up something that looks like a round courgette, about the size of a golf ball.

grown from Red Kabocha seed

the big halloween pumpkin is now having to be supported in a net - it seems far too heavy for its stalk

norfolk halloween pumpkin

making the best of things

last week, the slugs ate most of the lettuce - so the late french beans had a space to be planted out into. this week, blight has tried to destroy the tomato plants, so we have odd gaps here and there where tomatoes have been pulled out. right on cue, a seed catalogue has turned up, full of things to sow this month and even in September - they're actually selling a french bean that can be set now and fruit by next month. I have enough bean plants and no space so won't try them, but certainly I'm tempted by late season turnips and carrots.