Dug up the remainder of the Roosters - some bigger potatoes, but still overall disappointing.

Cut one Anna Schwartz of two on the earliest plant, butternut on windowsill is yellowing somewhat but still a way to go.

Runners still coming, Cherokees too, few courgettes, Raspberries in decent numbers.

Autumn potatoes look ok.

Found some not dead psb plants. But they're pretty tiny.

Harvest

Harvesting runners and cherokees now - the Irish Creek seem to have come to an end, but both the climbing beans are now producing hard and fast. The Zucchinis are still producing decent volume - we cut a load of fairly small ones today in the hope we'll prevent ourselves from getting marrows when we get back from Devon.

Raspberries turning out a few berries most days.

Cut two squash today - one Crown Prince (i think) in order to allow the others on the vine to get more boom, and a butternut because it's reached an enormous size already. Theory says that they'll keep ripening on the windowsill - the butternut squash is green still, but fingers crossed not for long.

Ongoing

Pulled the most egregiously sprawling cucumber plant out of the greenhouse - it turned out to be two, enourmous and totally lacking in fruit, and the extra space seems to have helped things a bit. Tomatos are doing ok - not enourmous looking yields but still alive, despite the tomato moth whose caterpillars were chomping their way through leaf and fruit alike. There's now a single cucumber in the greenhouse, one of the hemaphrodite italian outdoor types, but it now has a healthy number of good looking cucumbers growing on it. The ones outdoors, which snuck onto the squash bed unnoticed, are still doing well - they're small but have delivered a decent number of really tasty decent small cucumbers. There are probably three or four almost ready to harvest atm. Squash are doing very well - something like 10 fruit in total in various levels of growth, but there's the danger of a crappy end to the summer, and even theives, to worry about. One of the plants which didn't really take off turns out to be a guatemalan banana squash, and now has a single fruit forming. I doubt it will make it, but who knows.

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