This month last year, thanks to a memory prompt from social media, I note that we were taking out our broad beans and sowing kale. At present, the beans, though now succumbing to a form of 'rust' are still going and sending out fresh shoots from the base. I'm going to leave these a little longer and see if we get a worthwhile second harvest. Then I'll be in search of the next autumn-sown vegetables to fill these beds.
Our raspberries, netted against our bold blackbirds, are continuing to do well in their second year, and they also are beginning to flower on what should be next year's canes. Our blueberries (in pots) are faintly purple - nets will be required in the next fortnight.
Our tomatoes are slow. My husband has moved them into the open outside the greenhouse and tells me he can see them changing into a different shade of green. The greenhouse is now home to a butternut squash grown from saved seed. It is producing male flowers but as yet no female flowers are opening. Fortunately our winter squash, positioned under our bay window, are now beginning to yield courgette sized fruits and this week I used them in an Indian-inspired soup with lentils and the broad beans.
Things up here take their time; I am slowly adjusting to growing vegetables in a cool climate.
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