Looking well, hope ours will look this good, do I spy parsley, another favorite, second to Comfrey of course!

gosh you've got good eyes Yep parsley in there too

Got flat leaf, curled Aphrodite and Parcel. The parcel looks like the flat leaf at the moment but cor blimey the difference in taste couldn't be wider apart. Groooooooooooooh It's for cooking no I shall need to go steady

Finally! Last night brought home my fisrt courgettes, 1 Bambino (slim green) 1 Striato d'Italia (striped ) and 2 Bolognese (

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) they are yummy

... and a golden beetroot

Great photo Wards

Well done with your courgettes Flo - I've not got any yet Plants got eaten by slugs , then made a bit of a recovery but got bashed around in wind and rain they are flowering again though so am hoping I'll get one or two at some point

I've just emptied my first tub of potatoes (Accent) - got 23 spuds Also picked a handful of dwarf french beans from pot in greenhouse so we'll be having those with tonight's dinner

Great pics Wards. My sprouts are about the same size as yours so that makes me feel a bit better about putting them out so late

No courgettes for me either. No flowers as yet although I think I may have some this week, I swear I spotted some buds when I was there on Friday

I'm getting about five or six courgettes a week now, I'm picking them small though
One of my 'pink ping pong' tomato plants is seven feet tall now
All the toms are laden with dinky fruit except the black plum which has full sized fruit on just waiting to ripen.
And one of the broadbean plants that was finished and cut to ground level has sent up new stems complete with flowers!

I hereby declare veg in the flower beds to be a success

Popped into the plot on the way home from the Friendly against Lincoln United and picked/pulled/cut:
Courgettes
Peas
French beans - green, yellow and purple
Broad Beans
Carrots
Sow Thistles (for the guinea pigs)

Had it all for tea along with Cabbage and Vales Emerald spuds dug yesterday.

Yesterday, I had plot curry and it was lovely. Feeling dead healthy and smug now!

Oh how nice to read all this We had plot veggies here too, came back to wonderful chinese-type dishes of broad beans, french beans and chicken with courgettes I love summer

proper food at last Plot curry Why did I not think of that. Doh Sounds fab I fried sossies and onions in my lotty shed for lunch and me and OH had them slapped between crusts. Very haute cuisine

another plot pic today

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Oh Wards, your plot looks fab

I spent an hour and a half yesterday diving in and out the shed when the real heavy showers came over Gave up at 4.30 when there was no blue sky to be seen for miles

Lovely plot Missus Is it celeriac I spot in the background? If so it's much bigger than mine huh
Aww Loops... but you're lucky it rained a bit....

Lifted my garlic today... Some really nice ones but a few ickle ones, the size of marbles I blame the seeds
Cleared the bed ready for sowing green manure tomorrow Picked a ginormous bag of green beans , more courgetttes and lettuces
Toms still very litle and very green No sign of cucs ...if .... it is cucs I planted I have a labelling issue
Must take some pics but I have a new phone and I aren't quite sure how it works yet

Actually managed to get some seeds sown at the w/e mostly salad stuff but also finally got some more leeks dibbed out !!!

Tell me something ... my sweetcorn started to make tassels and it's only 2ft tall !! the packet says it should ne 150 - 180 cms! Was this a reaction to the previous hot spell do you think ??? Looks really healthy!

Dunno but mine's got tassles too And it's about.... that high

Mine is throwing up a flower head and it is about that tall - no tassles yet though. It is very lush this year. The dwarf frenchies that I sowed in between (cos you're supposed to be able to because corn doesn't throw much shade) is very very leggy - it will make picking the beans easier.

My minipops are about 4' high but no flowrrs or tassles yet - it's lush anorl.

I got some diddy ickle beans at the plot today that were just lying on the ground... and the tops have gone from the plants again but I got another lovely courgette that's doubled in size in about 3 days and AT LAST my peas are growing and have lots of flowers, so I tied them in

ps something's eating my aubergine leaves - I can't see any slugs in the GH, but is that what it'll be? My books not very helpful

Somethings chomping on my aubergine leaves too Loops Don't think it's slugs 'cos there's no sign of any slimy bits and mine are being chewed from the inside out

It IS slugs or snails Trust me, I've given Get those pellets ASAP Organic ones, mind They work... evil laughter ...

Hmm, I'll chuck some pellets down then Dom. I got organic ones for the lettuces in the GH as they were being munched and I got a couple of those big snails the morning after

Our lotty mate Vern. is nurturing two sunflowers, they are trailing over the plot, with several buds on them, we tell him they are courgettes, but he his not having that, is this the first trailing sunflower

Aww bless He's allowed

Psst... I have cucs that may turn out to be squashes...but don't tell anyone

tee hee |I lovingly nurtured the trial snake gourd which turned out to be a cucumber

Been plotting, a bit hot thou. comfrey bed going well, pulled a radish couldn't pull a man every thing growing well seeing it all went in a bit late, already got neighbours wanting to purchase surplus gave Vernon a sunflower - bless.

Isn't it amazing how mother nature allows late plants to catch up!! I did that my first year and had a brilliant harvest when it cam round ... Go Elizabeth!!

Incidentally I have a dustbin of Comfrey 'Tea' ... pfwarrr it PONGS ... it had better do the trick on the plants!!! ... Do you guys use this neat or dilute it???

Went to get some salad yesterday ... my squah bed 15' x 10' of lush jungle all fenced in but there are things growing in there that look promissing !!

Morning, we haven't set our water butt up yet, but when Andrew makes the base we will put comfrey leaves in a porus sack and suspend in the butt, I think dilution is around 15 to 1 and have been informed it will do the trick, this is from Vegetable Growing Month by Month by John Harrison a good read and explains about Comfrey on pages 86, 128,132,143,159,214 so we expect to be overun with veggie's