Tomatoes and other veg

It's been a funny growing season.  We have done well with the potatoes at Hill House, and we had a good corn harvest.  But the tomatoes took for ages to grow and set fruit and have resolutely refused to  ripen.  Up at Hill House the magpies have been eating them.  Down at Tani they are just now starting to ripen.  In other years the plants would have been dead by now but this year the days have remained quite warm and so far we haven't had any overnight frosts.

Just starting to ripen

These teeny tiny tomatoes are supposed to be tiny
and are little flavour bombs when you eat them

The peanut plants are gamely hanging on. We pulled one up to see what, if anything, was happening underneath and found several small peanut pods.  We'll leave the rest here until the plants die off properly and see if the grow/ripen any more.

The carrots are coming along and the purple sprouting broccoli plants seem happy in their box. We've only just planted them and they are just starting to grow. The zucchini and pumpkin plants were sacrificed to make way for them - they had started to die off and were no longer producing.  It must be said that immature butternuts make splendid zucchini substitutes!

We also have some hollyhocks, lupins and salvias ready to start a flower "garden"

Up at Hill House the miniature cauliflowers are starting to flower and we have PSB, more caulks and some cabbages ready to plant out. I need to get some more seeds sown. I have romanesco and carrots and cabbages which can be planted now.

We also tidied up, re-arranged and sorted out the garage.  We can now (just!) fit Ziggy in.  We thought Ziggy might like a bedroom of its own, should winter ever arrive.