The harvest progresses

Two more courgettes today, which is hardly news, as I have had at least one courgette per day on average off the two plants for weeks now. Also, a bowl full of cherry tomatoes, the second or third such bowl; the two tomato plants are groaning with more that haven't ripened yet. An aubergine or two should be ready to pick by the end of the week, and there are lots of little green chillies turning red. There are also a few green peppers, one of which is reddening as well, but they're very small. Not enough water perhaps? Although nothing else has felt the lack... The lodger is offering to make a second waist height planter for next year, so the courgettes can rampage all on their own and leave plenty of space for the other plants.

The disappointment this year has been the potatoes -- I have lovely tasty baby potatoes, just not very many of them. Each patio sack has yielded at most a couple of meals. Probably the very dry weather in July...