We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow well, we have at least three plants so preparing myself for living off of courgettes over the next month. In the spring time I sowed further squash plants in case the first lot did not germinate (they did) but didn’t label them. I’ve filled space on the plot with these second sowing squash plants and am still waiting to see what is courgette, what is butternut squash, and what is pumpkin.

I was hoping to pull up the onions but they are only just starting to bend over, maybe if we have a warm week then next weekend I’ll be able to do it instead. Something else a bit behind is digging the potatoes, once again it has been too wet but today I dug up our first plant which gave us just under a kilo of potatoes for the week. I’ll dig them up one-by-one as needed for the coming weeks before I did them all up eventually and dry them off for storing.

Swede plants I put out last week had all established and further seed I sowed had germinated enough to plant out this morning. I’m hoping by planting them out as really young seedlings will mean the root has not started too much and we may get swedes looking more like swedes and less like funny carrots.

Carrots is something we have been pulling and eating a lot of, both from the garden (nice orange straight ones) and the plot (more wonky ones, mostly purple and white).

I cut down the broad bean plants which had died back, in doing so it has made more room for the bolotti beans to grow. I tied some of them up against the poles to help them along.

The wet weather had helped the weeds and the grass grow, the plots around us seem to have been abandoned once again so I took the strimmer up to tidy things up.