We’ve started to stake the ‘Cobra’ beans as they started to trail along the ground, unfortunately only two of the plants made it, but they’re looking strong and have started to flower.

Talking of flowers, the courgette flowers are fabulous! And it’s so exciting to see four baby courgettes looking so healthy… and there’s more to come by the look of it.

The sweetcorn too is fantastic, such a growth spurt in just a week – we’re hoping for six sweetcorn so that we can share them with The Gang (you lucky people!!).

Onions and leeks are also standing proud and getting large, funny how one red onion has appeared in the middle of all our white onions though – we’ll probably fight over that one!!

Today’s wildlife:
An amazing orange and black striped caterpillar
Baby frog
Bloody great pigeon
Several bees

For the frogs we think we need to give them a safe area! So many times we disturb them and every time they make Lisa squeak from shock as they leap out!!

We were delighted to find that beneath all the jungle of weeds our tomatoes were actually growing!! They’re little and green, but hopefully they’ll ripen nicely. Lisa’s mum has also given us some smaller tomato plants so we need to get them in the ground once we’ve cleared a few more weeds (she also gave us a green tomato chutney recipe should they not ripen!).

Also growing well are the sweetcorn, beans and broccoli, so we’re very hopeful of some good crops there too.

The herb garden was very overgrown, but apart from the parsley and the chilli plants everything is doing well, including three frogs, who leapt out of the jungle and looked quite annoyed at being disturbed! We think we’ll have to find them a little Toad Hall to live in!