Harvest Friday plus pics of plot

This is what we harvested today:

Three courgettes, onions (can you spot the red one?!) and a slightly nibbled Hispi cabbage. The plot is looking great now, here are some pics:

A couple of sweetcorn to the left front, courgette Black Beauty front middle, onions behind that, with a second crop of peas behind that and lettuce under the blue hoops (to support netting) and main crops spuds behind that. Here's a slightly different view from the same side:

You can see that the white cosmos flowers and scabious in the front left of the pic are flowering well. The french and runner beans are climbing the netting and beans are beginning to set. Here is the other half of the plot, with my daughter holding her mini allotment in a pot:

You can see that the leeks are doing really well in the foreground. And this is the pic that Graeme was taking from the other side at the same time:

To the left of the pic is the Enviromesh tunnel for the brassicas and to the right are a couple more courgette plants plus two butternut squash plants. The turquoise netting on the far right of the pic houses purple sprouting which incidently have been crawling with cabbage white caterpillars. Not sure how that happened?!

Yesterday we took a trip to Hampton Court Palace. The gardens were lovely especially the kitchen garden. Our favourite constructions were these:

Teepees were created with string tied to the top and wrapped around tomatoes plants for support. Very nifty. Here's a close-up:

Might have to steal that idea for next year!