Zombie Cucumbers

Well, so far so good with the tomatoes. There are some that are definately healthy and ripening

Others are a bit soggy

But they're easy to spot so we're removing them as they go. Fingers crossed :)

The cucumber plants that we were going to throw away have decided to have three more fruits on so we're leaving them.

Strange to think a plant in this poor condition

Has these growing healthily on it

They've had a good pruning and a feed now :)

My giant squash plant is surprisingly becoming a giant plant, with squashes growing on it ;)








The red chillies are fruiting well now, with a lot of pruning to get rid of the Aphid damaged leaves :(

Gruesome aphid close-up on one of my other habanero plants.

My red onions grown from seed are all ready for lifting but will be left for another week or two.

My lovely green cone, we had this delivered two weeks ago. Cost a grand total of £7.50 including delivery and installation from www.greencone.com, due to a council incentive scheme. Pop in your postcode and see if you get a fab discount too.

Pulled up the beetroot as it was going to seed even though the beets weren't too large. We harvested a tub full of them though. Gratuitous hubby shot

Harvested a handful of blueberries for snacking

And our hops plant is finally flowering! Yay!!

Blight and Bananas

Our tomatoes have blight :( All of the plants are affected, even those that had gone outside recently. Boooooo.

After a grumpy facebook post from me saying we'd lost the tomatoes, somebody replied with a tip about picking the green toms and using bananas to ripen them. We'd been all set to make a vat of green tomato chutney but the prospect of being able to make passata instead was too good to pass up.

So after doing a bit of googling and finding this method on wikiHow as to how to ripen a large amount of tomatoes.

http://www.wikihow.com/Ripen-Green-Tomatoes

We harvested all the green toms yesterday and stored them in cardboard boxes, layered with newspaper and a partly green banana.




















There were some green tomatoes that looked a bit suspect, but not quite blighty. We've seperated these into their own box to see how they ripen.

In better news, my blueberries are ripening :)

I harvested the last of the whitecurrants last night, and reused the netting from those bushes to protect the blueberries.

My Brundell mint is flowering, pretty purple flowers too.

My chives are flowering too.

Steve took these lovely photos of the low moon from our patio last night too. Very pretty, the effect looked a bit like a floodlight.