Not all veg / harvesting / two that got away / back at the ranch

So while what we talk about on here is mostly fruit and vegetables, we do grow some ornamental things up at the allotment, for example some sunflowers (though perhaps today they should be overcastflowers?...)

If I had to explain why we are growing them up there, I would struggle but is nice to do and we have the space 😀 Harvest wise the purple beans are showing no sign of running out of steam, and the green beans are now in full swing so that's another 800g or so of beans:

These are great in stir fries and in pasta, so we can (currently) cope with the produce! Less awesome are the courgettes - we have had things on last couple of evenings so did not make it to the plot and since Sunday these have appeared:

Literally grown from not there to too big in 3 days. Good job we went to pick else they may have hit the Wiltshire border by the weekend! The leeks we planted a couple weeks back are going great guns - obviously something we are doing right there:

We had also given up on the strawberries and decided to leave them for the birds, only to find that they have woken up and started producing some fruit... along similar lines our pumpkin (Jack 'o' Lantern) has produced some fruit:

And the apple tree doing OK:

Meanwhile, back at the ranch we are harvesting a decent amount of tomatoes:

These are nice as the different varieties actually taste quite different!