It’s mid August, I haven’t planted any vegetables since the Sweetcorn in July. In the Summer months, I like to sit back and enjoy the garden, enjoy the harvests and enjoy watching the plants and wildlife flourish.

All the hard work, sowing seeds and caring for plants in Spring has paid off as the vegetable garden is overflowing with lettuce, spinach, mange tout, french beans, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries.

The tomatoes are slowly changing colour from green to a muddy brown and yellow.

The Brussels sprout plants are bursting out of their cage (which will need some maintenance, stay tuned for my next post) and the Savoy Cabbage plants have finally started to grow their trademark crinkly leaves.

Some maintenance has been required this weekend, to cut back perpetual spinach plants, white chard and remove flowering (bolted) lettuce to make space for my butternut squash plants to grow as they are producing new leaves.

The Sweetcorn have settled into their space although some are being shadowed by the giant sunflowers at the back of the plot which are still growing. The Sweetcorn by the brassica cage are doing better and are taller as they get more sun in this spot.

We have harvested the first plant with blueberries over the past 3 weekends, for one plant, that is a hell of a lot of berries. We eat a lot of blueberries so I’m well impressed by the amount of berries and will definitely be getting more blueberry plants next year to add to the amount harvested.

With our blueberry plants, we have them staggered with harvests in different months so that we don’t get loads of blueberries in one go. As I will be adding to this schedule, I’ll pick an early blueberry plant and a very late one to compliment the other two varieties. This way harvesting can take place from Late May to Late September in the UK.