The Veg Patch

Between birthday celebrations, trips to Perth, visiting friends, tendonitis, bursitis and a dodgy toe, we've not managed to get into the veg patch as much as we would like.   Except to pick endless cucumbers from our space saving cucumbers.  Which have in fact been running rampant all over the garden and growing through all of the vegetables along with some raspberry canes, weeds, volunteer tomatoes and dahlias.  Add to that burgeoning weeds and spent corn, and well, the veg patch was looking a mess.

I finally managed to get in amongst all for an hour while the lovely R mowed the grass and turned it into a lawn again.  We've now got two, lovely neat rows of lettuce. 

It was very satisfying to turn an untidy patch into something reasonably tidy.  But not nearly as satisfying as picking the first of the tomatoes at last (I thought we'd never get any at all) along with some Japanese egg plants, paprikas, a last flush of strawberries and one rather large spring onion (there are loads of those left too). Oh and more cucumbers.  There are endless, endless, endless cucumbers.  

Hopefully over the next couple of weekends we'll be able to get some garden beds prepared and ready to plant some winter veg seedlings.  Hopefully our winter veg patch will be as successful as the summer one has been. Or even more so.