Lots more to harvest...
I’m continuing to harvest beans, courgettes, cucumbers, potatoes and sweetcorn.
The sweetcorn has done particularly well with varieties including ‘Mirai White’ (‘Mirai 421W’), ‘Mirai Bicolour' (‘M302BC’), ‘Lark’ and ‘Extra Tender and Sweet’. I’ve also harvested our first melon which was quite small and quite tasty too (if I’d left it a bit longer to ripen it would have been perfect).
I planted out some of the seedlings that were sown in modules last month including Mizuna, choy sum purple-flowered, mustard ‘Giant Red’, radicchio ‘Treviso Precoce Mesola’, pak choi ‘White Petiole’, ‘Red Choi’ and 'Mei Quing Choi’.
I’ve also planted some onion sets ‘Snowball’, ‘Electic Red’ and ‘Radar’ and will soon be planting garlic ‘Solent White’ and ‘Lautrec Wight’, and also the winter hardy spring onion ‘White Lisbon’.
The borlotti beans have grown well and covered the wigwams (pictured top), I’m going to leave most of the pods on the plant to dry out and then the podded beans can be used, they have a striking mottling on them (see left).
The pumpkins, gourds and squashes are continuing to grow and ripen; a few have been cut off their stems and left on straw to ripen.