Tomatoes anyone?

Upon arriving back in Winchcombe the effects of a week of being ignored and predominantly wet weather was quite evident and it took a few hours to get the overgrown grass, brambles and weeds under some sort of vague control again.  

But we were also able to harvest quite a lot of home-grown produce:  tomatoes, spinach, carrots, sweetcorn, cucumbers, courgettes, runner beans, French beans and basil,  The Chinese salad greens had been decimated by slugs or caterpillars so they went straight into the compost, as did quite a few of the Runners because they were on the large and therefore stringy side. Oh well... whilst they weren't suitable to accompany a Sunday roast we will reap the rewards of the compost created on the next lot of seedlings!

I am eagerly anticipating the ripening of the almost-forest-like abundance of sweet peppers too!  One plant alone has eight fruits!  The peppers are also very distinctly green at the moment but I am hopeful that with some more sunshine (!) there will be some orange and red ones to taste too.

​There was also a carpet of blatantly kamikaze windfall apples strewn across the lawn – they’re not quite sweet enough as eating apples, and they’re not necessarily proper ‘cookers’ either.  Still, we have A LOT of them turning into little balls of cider in the hedgerows where they have been side-lined!

Fun Fact:   Peppers are classed a botanical fruit because they have at least one seed and grow from the flower of the plant.