Wednesday afternoon harvest. A collection of beets, kohl rabi, radish and carrots along with some runner beans, various salad leaves, chard, herbs and colourful edible flowers. The heavy rain a few days ago and sunny days have helped things along in the garden and the tomatoes are starting to become red finally. My squash plants are also coming on leaps and bounds after a slow start and tricky pollination ( I had to reverted to self pollination for one of them which the bees had obviously turned their noses up to, if bees even have noses to turn up to things that is)
Bill the butternut squash produced this lovely specimen which is now nestling amongst some cosy straw to stop it getting blemished by the tiling.
After training herself nicely up some canes (owing to the lack of horizontal floor space) Trinny the Turks turban squash, happily settled in amongst the cabbages and beans is now flowering and producing fruit with her first baby now hanging effortlessly as it ripens. I have never grown TT's before but am excited for them mainly because of the strange nature of their appearance, you'd be pressed to find this rather ugly (obviously beautiful in my eyes) squash down at the local supermarket. I'm keeping my eye on it and will be constructing it a netting hammock if it gets too fat!
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