YES, We Have NO Tomatoes!

The morning started well. We got a big super wave off Johnnie Badger as we trekked up the path to start sorting out the lottie after all the rain. but oh, what a disappointment it was to find our very sad tomatoes had died. It couldn't have been lack of water that killed 'em, it was the dreaded blighty again! So we started by throwing them all into a big green bag to keep them away from everybody else's, not that anyone seems to have fared much better without a green house to grow them in.We then rescued our spinach whose outside leaves had grown to jungle proportions, along with the weeds. What a difference a few days make! We were sure that we had left everything in good order but this warm rain is making everything leggy instead of lush.
We really had to put a lot of work into weeding the corn, brassicas, onions, leeks, beans, swedes, parsnips and, finally, the carrots. By mistake some carrots came up with the weeds so we had to sow half a row of the Nantes that we got from the BBC. Then, having a row of space to spare, we sowed our winter spinach, for one of our favourite vegetarian meals , spinach and ricotta cannelloni with tomato and basil sauce. We barely had time for a cuppa before we started picking sweet peas. potatoes, raspberries, courgettes. peas, the last of the blackcurrants, and our hidden treasure for this week, beans!! We got some! We thought they would never arrive but there they were hidden, but not for long, we've got a basketful. True, we might have missed them the last time we went down, but now they are not quite so dwarf as they are supposed to be, but they are beans nevertheless. Our French beans are whoppers too because we must have missed them but Hazel said to try just using the beans inside the pods instead in case they are a bit woody. But, we are on their case now, and we will be one step ahead and catch them at the right size next harvest day unless, of course, there is so much rain this week to prevent us getting down to the plot again. We went home well satisfied with our morning's work in the sunshine.