The garden produce is starting to get a bit more prolific. Indeed, I forgot about the mangetout. I’d already picked the plants clean, but they produced a lot more and I didn’t notice until they had all plumped up full of peas. So I picked them all and shelled the peas, and have a nice little container full.

The early plums are absolutely crazy. If the jackdaws are taking them (and I guess they are because the upper branches don’t seem to have any – and they did a few weeks ago) they are still leaving plenty for us. I’m thinking plum jam is the way to go, although we did have some of them in a fruit salad last night which included our solitary strawberry. I picked a bowl full and there are easily twice as many left on the tree. I had to fight the wasps (eek!) and the apple tree (lots of long branches laden with apples that I have to work my way around and under to reach the plums).

After the recent rains, the courgettes have burst into fruitfulness. I found one large courgette (how did I miss it before??) and a couple of normal size. There are about a dozen baby ones on the way. And that’s only two plants.

The other two plants are not doing so well. They’re in a different part of the garden and my Beloved will have to gather those courgettes when they appear because the plants are surrounded by nettles and a huge tub of water that I can’t shift. So I can’t actually reach the plants! 

Just in time for the fruit salad, I discovered two ripe blueberries. One each! The rest of the blueberries and still green and unripe. But I’m amazed. I was convinced the blueberry bushes had died, but I think the raspberries have been nurturing it. The bush is surrounded by self-seeded raspberries. I must keep an eye on those raspberries. We keep finding them popping up in the lawn which is across the path from the bed where the raspberries live.