This is turning out to be one cool wet summer so far, so the crops arent growing much. However, I ate my first courgette last night (zucchini), and tonight I munched my way through my first "autumn" raspberries - yummy! Squirrels (bain of my life) dont seem to realise that raspberries are edible - yet! They have been running off with strawberries and have nibbled the unripe corn and apples. I have netted the pear tree to try & stop them running off with all the unripe pears as at this time last year.
Emma and Sophie have been enjoying the large strawberries, and I have also been filling Sophie up with "fairy strawberries" - Emma isnt so impressed, even with my marketting of them, but Sophie loves them. They're really called Alpine Straberries, and are the size of peas, very sweet and take absolutely no care at all - practically a weed in my garden. Anyway, Sophie recommends them!
The first of my much-neglected tomatoes are ripening in the hanging baskets by the front door now, so we should be eating them on the way to school about the time Emma breaks up next week. The pepper (capsicum) plants in the greenhouse are sulking away under attack from greenfly but are starting to flower, so we may get something there by the autumn!
The cucumber plants, well... some of them curled up and died but others are starting to flower, so maybe I'll get a couple of outdoor cucumbers after all. Up until last year I had no problem growing them, but now they hate me!
And the lettuce - we are in danger of looking like them. I tried really hard not to sow too many this year, but they just sat there and sulked and then they all ended up the same size so now they're all ready to eat at once!
So, what are you eating out of your garden right now? | 
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