Marrows!
Well, we’ve just got back from holiday, and a number of the courgettes have turned into rather large marrows… There’s a couple of normal sized fruit, but mostly marrow sized. I’ve picked them off to encourage the plants to produce more, hopefully they’ll grow on a bit … Some of the smaller fruit looks like its baked a little against the soil, I guess its been quite hot on a few days, and the heavy clay soil as cooked them a bit.
Some of the other things are looking a bit worse for going away, but then some of the things were moved out of the greenhouse at home as they definitely would have died there.
Surprisingly some of the broccoli seems to have gone to flower, given that I thought it was all winter type veg, I’m not sure what’s going on there! Sweetcorn seems to be doing well, though it seems to be sprouting shoots from the bottom rather than going tall…
The cucumber plants are doing well and there’s a number of good sized fruit on them, though the tomatoes in the greenhouse don’t seem to be doing much really. They’ve grown lots of stem, but haven’t really started to develop fruit. The Edonis melons are also doing well and a number of fruit on each plant have set, so I’ve cut the growing tips and removed the rest of the flowers to encourage the fruit to develop properly.