Squash

The season is coming to an end and it was time to start picking the cobnut squash. After a week of rain the warm low light made it good to be outdoors. The squash vary in size and shape quite a bit, the smallest must weight almost a kilo with the largest over two.

There's about a half dozen more I left growing, 'm sure the larger green one will ripen but the smaller pair might not get any bigger if the weather turns colder. Most of my other time was spent cleaning up the allotment, I took out the courgettes and all the remaining tomatoes.

While tidying I found a couple more green peppers, they won't turn red now so I picked them as well. I uncovered the first cabbages from the cloche, weeded around them and netted them back up. They look rather ragged at the moment but I hope they ball up and grow soon.

The glut

The courgettes are coming thick and fast, this little lot picked on Wednesday weighed in at 3.5Kg and I picked almost the same amount again yesterday. At least 5Kg of courgettes a week!

Likewise the french beans have stepped it up a bit too, about 4Kg of beans a week at the moment. Most of this produce is going into the deep freeze. French beans are easy to freeze, the courgettes are cooked up with tomatoes and then frozen.

The sunflower is enjoying the hot weather and looking at it's best right now.

My neighbour had some left over leeks after he'd planted his. He gave them to me and I've now been able to fill in where my earlier ones didn't take. Let's see how these ones do.

These are my cucumbers. The larger one is perhaps 15cm long but not very thick, I don't know how long I leave them growing for? The skin is quite spiny.

I've spotted about half a dozen squash forming so far, hopefully there will be a few more undetected so far. There not very big yet but will grow for another couple of months at least.

Although these ones don't look too bad most of my tomatoes now show signs of blight and the fruits themselves are not yet ripe. I wonder if I'll be able to salvage any sort of crop?

Although it looks chilli like this is supposed to be a capsicum pepper. I'll let it go on growing and see what happens to it.