Summer squash are really shooting up now. I did not have pictures of what these are going to turn our like but I think they are the scallop variety that I got from vegetableseeds.net. I look forward to eating these.
it will make a change from the usual shaped courgettes.

I seem to already have more than a dozen courgette plants on the go and wondered if anyone out there had managed to stagger their harvest before – as I don’t really want to have an overload in july like last year – when I only had 4 plants.
I have a half a dozen regular courgettes and about a half a dozen summer squashes and I am anticipating theat they will all fruit at the same time. Should I hold some back in the shed and deprive them of light for a few weeks so that they fruit later or do they always fruit at the same time of the year? Anyone got any ideas?

My rocket and mizuna

seeds have germinated in the back garden. I sowed 4 different  salad seeds into a large terracotta pot and the ticket and mizuna have both come through. Still waiting for the outreach orach and sorrel.

I may be a little but behind schedule with the tomatoes but they have started to emerge from the soil. And I think these will get panted out on the allotment if they manage to survive the cold, rain and winds. I have 3 larger plants at home that we bought for our back garden – hopefully one of our locations will manage to avoid the blight that normally decimates my crop in late august every year.

I took a few pictures in the garden the other day with some of my tiny architectural model men. I think I will take them down to the allotment too so that I have something worth photographing.
more to come.

Picked quite a lot of psb at the weekend and made this large tart with it. First time at making my own pastry too – not sure why it took me so long. The resulting tart lasted a few days worth of lunches.

Looking forward to some sunshine now! The next predicted dry day is next monday but I have to get out to the allotment this weekend if only to fix the shed roof where the wind blew my plastic panel off 3 months ago. Surely we have made up for the dry winter by now!

We seem to have had 2 weeks of rain now. That more than makes up for the previous 3 months surely. Enough already! I want to get out on the allotment this weekend. there is a lot to do. I have just checked the weather predictions and it looks like the next dry day is next monday. Hopefully the rain predicted for the weekend will only be short showers. Fingers crossed.

The tiny sprouting broccoli plants are mostly doing fine. One casualty out of about 20 is fine by me. Plastic bottles are providing protection until they are strong enough to look after themselves.

Alfie – Protecting the patch. Always ready with a friendly welcoming bark for any passer-by.