Shallots to last the winter, grown from sets. Runner beans - I sometimes eat them with a pasta sauce liek carbonara, if there's a lot. Cougettes, still doing well. Tomato plants which are so happy they haven't fruited. Some popped up from compost. I am not growing any brassicas again - the molluscs like them too well, and this year was a good yesr for cabbage white butterflies (I've seen two females fighting over a cabbage to lay eggs on.) Cucumbers a glut of - they make good soup, fortunately. Blackberries as usual doing brilliantly. I've a butternut squash plant which I thought would do as well as the courgettes and the cucumbers, but it seems to have developed end rot. I haven't harvested the potatoes yet - should have done it this week but I've had someone staying unexpectedly and haven't got round to it. I've got leeks for the winter, swedes and turnips. Celery has done badly, as it did last year year, after two good years. This year I started a lot of things off from seed in my spare room, but they took a long time to get going and then didn't take off very fast when planted out. Peas did quite well, but I need far more, and the succession sowing didn't grow. I've found a good product for keeping the slugs and snails off seedlings - pellets made from sheeps' wool - and definitely the daggy bit round the back. But it doesn't work later, as they find their way up other ways.
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