Wednesday 5 September 2012

Squash, But No Tomatoes!


This year the only vegetables that have grown well in my veggie garden are courgettes & squash. Everything else has been pathetic including the tomatoes grown in the polytunnel. Usually I have more tomatoes than I know what do with, but not this year. Ditto my cucumbers, peppers, chillis & aubergines. Even my apple tree has only produced 2 apples - one each for the horses! The herbs have done well though.

This Saturday is the annual WI Flower Show at the village hall & I doubt I'll be entering anything this time. Last year there were bumper entries but I think that the fruit & veg classes will be down due to the poor wweather. I have once again been asked to judge the craft categories & am looking forward to seeing the entries.


4 comments:

  1. We know the feeling except even our courgette our non existent . Our late Raspberries are the only thing that have come up to scratch.
    Gillx

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  2. Our courgettes have been rubbish this year! Enjoy your bumper crop!

    Xxx

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  3. up at the yard, we've grown these squashes on the corner of the muckheap and they've thrived- I think slugs and snails are too trepidatious to cross the warm and gently steaming terrain!

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  4. It's dire isn't it? Next to nothing here: no plums, damsons, hardly an apple, beans eaten by deer. The village show was last week and the produce was well down on usual.

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