... and later on she got some tomatoes and peppers ready in the hanging baskets (top tip, it stops then being eaten by pests!):
As we had a few hours this weekend where it wasn't raining, we decided to try and get some of the crops harvested. We've only brought in what we can manage to eat for a week or so, there's plenty more still to get in.
Lynne inspects the carrots that we grew:
"Not a bad crop, and that's not even half of them!"
"One of us forgot to thin the seedlings out though, there's a lot of mishapen ones in here! Never mind, they're still edible... maybe a soup?"
Lynne turned her attention to the potatoes. We dug up one of the three plots that she had sown earlier in the year:
Curious as she is, she got the scales out to see how much they weighed:
"1.4 kilos, not bad for a small area. I reckon if we had turned the whole garden into a potato patch, we would have got... three quarters of a tonne!"
"Yeah, but where would you have been able to sunbathe with no lawn left?"
We also managed to get a handful, and we mean a handful(!) of butter beans! There were a bit of an experiment as we weren't sure if they'd grow. We'll either chuck them in a stir fry, or dry them out and sow them again next year.
Still plenty to harvest yet. We've got our fingers crossed that the tomatoes and peppers can ripen a bit more before the frosts come. We might have to put the hanging baskets in the greenhouse or inside.
