Rock On

We've had some lovely sunny and hot days, with not a drop of rain so we've been watering every evening between World Cup football matches. One evening we found these in our greenhouse.

They're from neighbouring plotholder, Kate, and I'm now really looking forward to our 'HAHA Rocks' stone-painting stall at our Open Day next month. The '<Town Name> Rocks' craze has been going for a while now all over the country. We have lots of stones on site that could be improved with  decoration and we're happy for them to be taken away to spread joy round the country!!

You can see how dry the earth is, but everything is growing well and that bare earth should be quite well hidden by lush growth soon...

Like our potato plot is - the flowers are out on most of the plants now.

And the tomato plants in the greenhouse have the promise of future tasty toms.

Peppers are just beginning to form on the pepper plant nearest the door.

I spent time today planting flowers into tubs for prettying up the site for the Open Day. I hope three weeks is long enough to get some blooms...

I also sowed a few seeds - another row of beetroot and a row divided between black-skinned radish and some pink/purple fleshed ones - I think they're larger than normal salad radish, which have grown particularly well this year.

The trailling squash are finally planted - one each of: Festival, Boston Giant, Autumn Crown and Honeyboat. I still haven't worked out how to build the trellis, but I'm thinking about it...

We planted 14 of each sweetcorn plants during the week and will leave them protected in their bottle cloches for a while.

And today I pulled the garlic as the stems had yellowed-off completely, they should dry out nicely in this weather (cue the rain!). All those from one french garlic bought at the Hungerford Food Festival last year.

So, now it's back to footie - but just time to listen to the oh-so-dreamy David Essex for the title track