What's growing?

Blackcurrants are ripening nicely and raspberrries are looking good, although my blueberries haven't done very well this year. My broad beans are looking like a little forest, so I'm praying the dreaded black fly doesn't get them. My passiflora has fought a herculean battle with the slugs and snails and appears to be winning.

All the flower borders are looking lovely. Harvesting rhubarb, mange-tout, lettuce, herbs and spinach. Potatoes are looking great and all the brassicas are doing really well. Broad beans won't be far off. Strawberries are late but nearly there as are gooseberries and redcurrants. Lots of fruit on the blueberries which I have to grow in pots of ericaceous compost and there should be plenty of blackberries over the fruit arch. Not sure about the tomatoes as they're very behind. Butternut squash and courgette plants are in and dwarf beans are hopefully going in tomorrow. Onions and garlic looking good.....Phew!

My herb garden is glorious, apart from the slugs on the coriander, but the sage is managing to fill the gaps. We have no other harvestables (?) but everything else is going great guns - the benefits of a soggy summer, I suppose! My geums are spectacular!

Last year I had a bumper crop of gooseberries all ready for the picking, but the pigeons got there before me and had every last one. This year the fruit is all caged and I'm having the last laugh!!

I planted a number of Hollyhocks last year This year a lot of Foxgloves seem to be coming up in the pots where the hollyhocks were. The leaves look similar and the flowers grow up the stem in a similar manner. I have no idea how that happened.

I have some Gooseberries nearly ready for picking and some blueberries just ripening so I spent a day getting the small fruit cage over them so I can eat them and stop the birds getting their first.

Last years Swiss chard has just gone to seed and I have sown some more as well as some radishes.
I didn't buy the Gardeners delight bush tomatoes this year as it was so cold early on. Aldi saved the day last week by selling some cherry tomato plants in flower. I potted them on today and put them by the sunny south wall of my house. For some very odd reason I felt very happy just seeing them there.

My rhubarb is rubbish this year only planting runners this year, lack of space and enthusiasm are the culprit.. funny though my raspberries seem to be doing really well..

Flowers, flowers, flowers, here. Buy the veg at waitsores.