Celery, Sweetcorn, Leeks & Raspberries

My next harvest will hopefully be the leeks. They're looking strong and healthy and growing straight and true which is always good. I just hope they taste as nice!

Celery is a new one for me, and the plants are very leafy. I'm hoping the stalks will toughen up and broaden out a bit: am I meant to group them together and put them in tubes to help them do this?

Sweetcorn, again, is another new one, so I'm pleased to say the 10 stems all look to be doing well. 5 in one bed are doing much better than the ones in the other bed and I think the only difference they get is the amount of water, so I'm guessing that's the reason why.

And last but not least, there appear to still be a few raspberries hanging around. I picked as many as possible in the hopes of fooling the plants into making more fruit, but I think I only convinced one of the plants!

Harvest Time

Having got back from holidays a few days ago, the veg. patch is a sorry sight. So far I've managed to harvest the cabbages, but they were rather snail and caterpillar eaten, so most went on the compost heap; pull the garlic, all of which looks fab; pick the onions.

The courgettes are doing really well, a bit of water burn on the leaves as I've been lazy about the watering and put the sprinkler on, but other than that, they're dong really well. the flowers open every morning into full sun, the bees and insects pollinate them nicely and every few days, there's about 4 perfect little courgettes. In fact, they were so delicious, I made courgette fritters with them a few days ago. Have a look at direbonappetit in the next few days to see the recipe.

I've yet to weed all the beds; plant another row of carrots; check the beetroot and, somehow, ripen the tomatoes! They look great and very healthy, but they were late in and I'm worried they won't get enough sun to fully ripen. Oh well, it might be Delia's Green Tomato Chutney if they don't - check direbonappetit to see their fate!