Vegetating

Veggies out of the poly-tunnel and garden

Today I've been doing what I like doing best - working in the poly-tunnel and picking and digging. The wet, cold weather earlier in the year has made everything late. A couple of the apple trees are loaded, the rest of them have hardly got a leaf between them, let alone any fruit.  I've not seen any wasps buzzing around either, perhaps the blossom didn't get pollinated this year and the buds just dropped off - I don't know.  The first  sowing of runner beans outside was a complete disaster. They either rotted in the ground or the slugs polished them off just as they came through. I sowed a second lot of beans in June and they're just coming into their own. Bagged a few for the freezer. The tomatoes are ripening at long last. I saved some seed from a beefsteak plant last year and pretty near every one of them germinated so I've got loads of great big funny shaped tomatoes, but they don't half taste great. And they didn't cost anything.  I tried growing some Kohl Rabbi this year too. Never eaten Kohl Rabbi, so will cook some for dinner tomorrow. The slugs obviously like it - they've bitten a smiley face all along the bottom - durr.

There's an artichoke growing in the front border.

I wish I could have had a slow motion video camera to watch it opening.

The electric blue flower today is gorgeous.

I took this picture today. Compare it with the header - same hill, same trees, same hedges, same fields - that was last week, but it can't ever be the same because now everything's moved on.