Broad beans ready for picking

And peas ready to be eaten

Beautiful potato flowers

Preparing for Sunday lunch

It remains a funny year, weatherwise.  After a beautiful weekend the weather has reverted to its usual rain, gloom, chill and wind.  But not everything is suffering.  So far the Under Gardener has picked a little over 6 kilos of gooseberries, 2 kilos of peas and nearly 2 kilos of broad beans.  We have a mountain of rhubarb in the freezer, and rather more red currants than I was expecting.  We also have raspberries in the freezer, although nothing like as many as last year.  Even so, not too bad.  But the poor zucchini, squash, cucumber and pumpkin plants in the garden are seriously struggling.  They are not enjoying the cool temperatures and rain at all.  But the plants on the allotment in the greenhouse are thriving. There might even, soon, be cucumbers ready to pick!

At the risk of tempting fate and inviting calamity upon the tomato plants - so far I think they are not blighted.  I might (finally) plant into bigger pots the few plants left in the potting greenhouse. And the ones in the allotment greenhouses have flowers and even one or two small tomatoes growing on them.  Now all we need is some sunshine to encourage them along.