The Frantic Gardeners’ Blog

i think there should be more of them Had lots of family visiting today, and niece in particular veru enthusiastic about picking and choosing veg for dinner. still loads of french beans, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, courgettes and chard. curry was a hit also made a pasta bake [spares of each into the freezer for when not eating so much of the same!]. ANother crumble - raspberry and apple. the pears are getting there now as well, so hoping to harvest them in september.

The watermelons still growing, tho i am not hopeful!

We have a v weird courgette. must post a piccie of it. it should be a yellow parador, but appears to have gone all mottledy. must be some kind of virus or reversion. when i print a pic, if anyone reads the blog they might comment on it. the others on that plant also similar.

Starting to harvest the runner beans. they are very prolific cropping and taste delicious. The cobra are pretty much finished now after the picking this weekend of french beans, but still blauhilde.

The grapes in the consercvatory are doing well. they take a while to ripen as such an old variety, but the kids couldn’t help picking.

Looking round the veg patch, we need to consider doing a big tidy up so that in sept can get ready to plant garlic and broad beans