The last of the onions and potatoes

Every few days we are harvesting lettuce, runner beans, dwarf beans and courgettes but we are not taking so many pics of these for the blog as it is simply more of the same! I did take a pic of today's harvest since it included our very first iceberg lettuce:

The variety is "Iceberg 2" grown from the Headed Mixed Lettuce pack of seeds from Mr. Fothergills. I also harvested the last of the Rijnsberger onions grown from seed. These are generally smaller than the Sturon grown from sets. Last weekend we dug the last of the potatoes so there are a few bare patches appearing in the allotment now:

Hopefully we will be getting some manure in a few weeks time which should give the plot a boost for next year. There are still lots of things on the other side of the plot though:

In the foreground you can see the leeks Autumn King 3, some of which are ready for harvesting. The two butternut squash plants (between the the two mesh tunnels) have reached epic proportions and have a lot of fruit on them:

I counted about 10 decent sized fruit plus a few more developing. They are all a little bit smaller than shop-bought ones so I might remove a few of the riper fruit to try and encourage the others to get a bit bigger. Under the Enviromesh we have some chard and more lettuce:

And more lettuce in the raised bed: