The crops are growing like fury due to the warm & very wet August we are having – I’ve weeded the carrot seedlings this evening, but the leaves of the beans & the squash in particular don’t give the weeds much of a chance.In fact the squash leaves don’t give anything else much a chance – the tomatoes just about holding their own, but when it comes to picking them when they eventually turn red, I’m going to need to be armed with a big stick, I think!
I did fight my way through to pick a mandarin sized SQUASH (pomme d’or) – these are supposed to be apple sized winter squash, one person sized. The one I picked was indeed a one person size – a small person size at that – but the skin was cured hard, so I guess that it was ready.
Cut in half with the seeds scooped out & roasted for tea tonight, it was very tasty indeed. Just as well, as I think there are a couple of dozen more of these on the plant.I picked a couple of big handfuls of the FRENCH BEANS (barlotto lingua) – 8 to 10” long round pencil-like bean which don’t actually look anything at all like either the dwarf French bean (firetongue) or climbing French beans barlotto saved from last year, but there we are.
I also picked half a dozen RUNNER BEANS (reg-next-plot) which I steamed for tea with the carrots & they absolutely melted in the mouth. Fabulous!




