During our loooovely two week holiday in Thailand we had cleverly forward planned and arranged for Charl and Jon, expert horticulturists, to pop up in keep an eye on things. We were thrilled to see that they had done their best to plunder as much as possible, and we only had a glut of runner beans to contend with on our return.
However, since getting back we have been slightly less well organised. Our weekends have been spent attending a wonderful wedding in Belgum and massacring an effervescent fig tree in Oxford, and as going up on weekday evenings had not even occurred to us, its been even longer than we'd hoped since we were last there.
But as ever, we were pleasantly surprised to see how hardy our plot has been to our blatant neglect. The beetroot that were only just seeded when we left are now definitely established nicely (we even managed to harvest one that was doing far too well compared to its siblings).
French beans and runners are continuing to be amazingly successful and we harvested about 3 kgs today, despite us already taking about three times that so far this year! Unfortunately, the growing frame has taken a bit of a bashing. Need to do a better job when we re-build it next year.
But the champion of the trip was the monster 'courgette' that we found. Must have been about 50cms long and weighed over 1.1kgs. Totally unexpected compared to the tiny 15cm jobbies that we'd been getting off it so far. I'm not sure what the difference between a marrow and courgettes are, but this one was definitely upwardly mobile.
Cabbages are still looking like cabbages, but as we both dont really like cabbages, we left them where they were. Note to self: dont plant as many cabbages next year.
