tomatoes

the tomatoes DO have blight. not all of them affected by it yet. have lifted some, pruned others and taken a lot of green fruit off - some should ripen, but some have already gone into chutney. plum tomatoes, both Super Roma and Poire Jaune, seem to be worst affected.

tomatoes

have had to lift and throw away 2 tomato plants. they had some strange kind of rot, completely destroying the main stem - I don't think it is blight. so far only 2 plants affected, all the others look fine and I have started picking fron the Shirley tomatoes that were planted in the plastic greenhouse.

picked this week

last of the cauliflowers, 3 heads of broccoli (stumps left to flower again), 3 small courgettes, last of the broad beans (plants cut back to see if they'll grow again), mangetout peas, peas from aldermans and feltham firsts, 3 runner beans, some small twisted french beans, some rocket, handful of raspberries(possibly the last), 2 blueberries, the first tomato

pumpkins

pumpkin growing through the mangetout peas

sunshine and showers seem to be good for the pumpkins and squash. several now have small fruits set but the halloween pumpkins are doing best.

three sisters planting

the pumpkin in the runner beans is taking over the world - have stopped the end but it's now sending out side shoots. the scarlet emperor beans are doing well - 3 picked so far! - and somewhere underneath the sweetcorn is trying to grow but I think it may be overwhelmed by the other plants

blueberries and potatoes

either something is very large or something is very,very small

cauliflower

a rather strange looking cauliflower

bean

first runner bean.