The Good Life - Harvest on the 18th July

The yields for the month of July are probably the biggest of any month. Most of the vegetables can be picked or are nearing maturity. Meanwhile the tomato and pumpkin type plants continue to grow and dominate their patches promising a good yield in the coming months. Equally smaller plants will equal promise such as cornichons and round courgettes are thriving on the edges of beds

By now all the red currants and gooseberries have been picked and transformed into luxurious richly coloured jam. I keep on suggesting to Corinne that we should use a container to gather the raspberries. She spends quite a bit of time at the end of the allotment with the raspberry canes, and as a result the raspberries rarely make it from one end of the allotment to the other. The blackcurrants are also starting to disappear, and very soon the blueberries and alpine strawberries will provide another diversion.

We have sown new beds of lolla rosa and baby gem lettuce which have proved to be very tasty and popular with friends. Corinne's artichokes, which were grown from seed, are steadily growing and we should be able to harvest some more next week.Peas have also been sown for a second crop of expectation.