It has rained every day - sometimes very heavily - for the last week, and our drought is well and truly broken. Not everything has liked it (it has of course been a lot colder as well) but the courgettes and butternut squash are doing well.There are several squash on each of my two plants, and we have more courgettes and runner beans than we can use, or indeed freeze!
The sweetcorn also are doing quite well. I have picked a couple this week, but they were not ready - another week? This week, I have also been digging potatoes. Good harvest of about 6lb per root, but a lot of these have been attacked by slugs. Note to self : next year get some slug-resistant spuds!
I have also been harvesting beetroot, French beans - now coming to an end - onions and late strawberries, which have not enjoyed the weather! The onions are drying off in the greenhouse at home. Most look pretty good, and should keep a long time. The garlic are now all dried and hanging up, and there are definitely enough!
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