After the wettest week in the wettest July on record we reach St Swithin's day and remarkably it hasn't so far rained. It might be a bit too late for my harvest this season though. I picked a few tiny courgettes and dug up some little potatoes. French beans are beginning to form but I don't expect anything like last years bags full of beans. If we don't have a few more sunny days I fear there won't be many tomatoes or squash come august.
A couple more artichokes for dinner, they have done surprisingly well despite the cooler temperatures and rain. There were about a dozen ripe pea pods which I picked, the peas as sweet as anything but not enough to make a meal with so I just ate them raw. Not much else going on, I got out the strimmer and cut the grass in the process of which I chopped down one of my violette french bean plants. Oh dear! even less chance of a bmper crop.
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