Cor what a whopper! A week away and the courgettes will play, came back home to two huge great marrows. I don't know what we will do with them? The green plants have many more courgettes to come as well but the yellow ones are giving up for this year.
I also picked my last patty pan squash. The plants had died back so I pulled them out to find this last squash still hanging on. I pulled out the tomato plants as well picking the last four fruit that hadn't got blight.
This year has seen a super abundance of raspberries, varying in shade from bright red to deep purple.
I picked an ice cream tub full of them and will probably put them in the freezer with the other two tubs I already picked.
The purple sprouting broccoli is beginning to sprout! It looks very pretty, we'll have to try it soon.
My cabbages are getting bigger and are also ready to start eating.
I picked most of the cobnut squash before I went away. There were two more barrel shaped squash growing on one plant when I got back. I pulled the other plant up as it had died back only to find another small squash on it.
It's the season for spiders and snails, hard to tell from the picture but this monster was about two inches across and living behind my watering can.
Last year I only picked about a dozen raspberries over the whole season. I was thinking about taking the canes out, they were something already on the plot when I started. I might change my mind now, not a huge crop but enough with more on the way to make it worth while having them.
Some autumnal strawberries are coming through as well. The plants have also sent out loads of runners with new baby plants on the ends. The strawberry patch will be much bigger next year.
I didn't have anymore french beans to pick and their foliage is turning brown but the plants are also in flower again so i guess there will be more beans yet!
A perfectly shaped cobnut squash, not too large but I picked it as it didn't seem to be getting any bigger. There are about six others growing altogether on the two plants.
This is an example of a plant two cobnut squash, a very different shape. It is a much bigger squash probably weighing over 2Kg.
They're quite pretty wen they are young green and stripy. This baby squash is only about 4cm long.
The undercover cabbages are doing fine but predictably the ones I left uncovered had been attacked by the birds, they really like cabbage. I've made a bit of a makeshift cover for them and I hope it'll do the trick.
I picked a few beetroot along with the usual courgettes and also collected a few more heads of garlic to take home. There's still an abundance of new potatoes before I get to the main crop but the tomatoes seem to have a bit of blight so not so many this week.
Finally the view over plot 68, it's been a good season in all and there's still quite a lot to come through the autumn.
