Allotments/ fruit and veg plots - how are yours faring?

Well interesting I have had an absolute bumper crop of strawberries I ve been giving them away freezing them eating them they are now just about over …raspberries not quite ready yet loads of rhubarb and gooseberries coming out my ears
Only did a few runners peas and broad beans but they ve done well had a few courgettesm, my leeks are looking good as is beet and parsnips No flowers on the tomatoes yet 16 broccali plants with tubes and netting eaten to the ground Cabbages attacked by cabbage whites just veins onions and potatoes looking good but not ready yet
Not a pear to be seen had a great crop last year I think the high winds earlier blew all the blossom off Apple tree seems to have fruit
So good and bad

I can’t grow spring onions or radishes

I've had a disaster in the greenhouse Despite watering and spraying inside the greenhouse every morning and checking again in the evening, my tomatoes have frazzled. I've had to dispose of one plant (MoneyMaker) completely and the other (Gardener's Delight) has had to be cut back to just one truss. Loads of little green tomatoes have perished. The cucumbers and cucamelon are like triffids; completely taking over the greenhouse with more and more runners. If they all come to fruition..... has anyone any cucumber recipes?

Yes:
www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/cucumber-pickle

But are the tomatoes beyond rescue?
Did the spray go on the leaves or just the roots before or after the sun was on the greenhouse?

We didn't water this evening

I blame Cummings.

I don't have an allotment but do have a 20' polytunnel, raised beds and fruit cage.

Not many strawberries from the polytunnel but 3/4 of the plants are new ones. Runners from last years old plants.

Lots beetroot in polytunnel and outside.

Picked first french beans yesterday.

First year with tayberries. Very sharp but huge. Blackcurrants not quite ready. Autumn raspberries? Poor blueberries. I have had 3 plants for 3 years and never more than a cup full from all three. Rhubarb failure too. No idea what I'm doing wrong as I've grown it at my old house very successfully. Nothing on 3 year old apple trees and cherry plums. We live in frost pocket and think they suffer every year with the ground and air frost.

Supersteak and plum tomatoes very slow but plenty to come. Hope they survive. Most are in the polytunnel. I had three years of tomato blight. Lettuce doing well in polytunnel.

Late purple sprouting broccoli and cauliflower OK. Garlic not quite ready. Sweet peppers small. Mini pop sweet corn nearly 6' tall ! No corn as yet.

Lots of gladioli and cosmos daisies and california poppy (jelly beans). Picking last two for the house now.

Runner beans have lots of flowers. Leeks doing well.

Any ideas about my rubbish attempts at growing rhubarb? Also need to find out why so little fruit on these expensive blueberry plants.

The cucumber pickle recipe Callistemon has linked to (up thread) is highly recommended, it’s truly delicious.

muse I’ve had two blueberry bushes for years and one produces lots of teeny tiny berries and the other produces very few, but good sized ones. Last year I bought two new bushes and left them in their pots and they’ve got a respectable showing of decent sized berries.

Thank you for the Cucumber pickle recipe. That is a definite this year I think?

Very glad to be harvesting anything at all this year as so much was stolen last year. Bored kids I assume.
Loganberries planted two years ago have produced a wonderful crop. Only one picking of gooseberries but apples and plums have fruit to look forward to.