The colour green

Green is the predominant colour of today's harvest:

With just 3 gardeners delight tomatoes. There are not many flowers left on the beans so I think these will be finished in the next couple of weeks. Courgette production is also slowing down ... a sign that autumn is on its way! I'm not sure on the variety of the lettuce in the above pic.... it is either a Romaine Ballon (grown from the Mixed Headed pack of Mr Fothergills seeds) or a Lobjoit Cos. Looking at images on google I would say the balance is in favour of a Romaine. The leaves are very long, with a large rib/stalk running through them so will be nice and crunchy in a salad. Here's a close-up of a leaf on the chopping board:

Tomato production down the allotment has been quite poor and most of these are green. We seem to have more success growing them up against our south-facing fence in our garden in grow-bags:

Here you can see Garden Pearl on the left and Marmande on the right. Garden Pearl are meant to be good for hanging baskets although we seem to have grown ours 'cordon-style' (we did'nt pinch out the side-shoots):

Our beef-steak variety 'Marmande' are nearly ready:

Garden pearl have been our favourites - a nice firm tomato, sweet and juicy. Sunbaby (yellow cherry) have also been fairly prolific but not as sweet. Moneymaker is our least favourite. And just because it is colourful, here is a bowl of tomatoes picked this week:

Lots more have been eaten!