Veggie update (August)

It feels like I've let things slip alittle, or perhaps it's just that the veg are ticking along nicely and don't really need my help too much (apart from constant watering of the indoor chillies and tomatoes), and I did spend an afternoon this week weeding like mad (but I took the photos before I'd done this - doh!).


Lots of lots of chilli. Paul is using the green and the red ones to make his hot, spicy pickled chillies - a hit with the family last year.


Sweetcorn - all six are doing OK, but all are very small - like last year, I'm not expecting much!


Oh my goodness, look at those weeds! Look at the purple sprouting broc too - not alot left is there? At least we've had a garden full of happy caterpillars and butterflies.


The outdoor tomato plants are full of fruit and a couple have ripened this last week. Need more warmth and sun.


Cute threesome of pumpkins - a litte early, not sure if they'll keep until Halloween. Growing fruit and veg is certainly a learning curve.


Peas have finished now but we have a huge crop of beans and dwarf beans. If they're not picked regularly, they become stringy when cooked. With still more flowers coming out every day I guess there'll be a lot more picking to do, which we all enjoy doing.


"Yum" sums up this photo - pickings from indoors and outdoors.

Sunny sunflowers

The seed packet said they'd reach 10 feet tall - I think they may be right!

One sunflower has yet to burst into bloom, but this one's brilliant and looks into next door's bedroom window.



Here's a smaller sunflower, from a bunch of roots pulled from my Mum's garden. Loving this sunny yellow in our garden this year.