A combination of wet weather and having other things to do kept me from checking on the garden for a couple of days, but this morning a foray down the veg patch and into the greenhouse produced a good handful of tomatoes and some fair sized courgettes. The courgette 'British Summertime' hasn't done so well this year; as its name suggests, it is supposedly bred to fruit well in our summer weather, but we haven't had a typical summer this year and perhaps it has been too hot for it! 'Defender' continues to do well, however; I need to buy more seed for next year and 'Defender' will definitely be on my shopping list.
Down by the compost corner, several impressive clumps of toadstools have suddenly appeared in the grass. I said in a recent post that the little solitary toadstool found in the lawn looked fairy-like; these ones are more for goblins, I think. Fruit, but definitely not edible, and rather sinister-looking!
I made the most of a couple of dry days to get on with attempting to clip the long hedge into some sort of order. I haven't cut the top for a couple of years; it involves balancing on the top of the ladder and hacking away with the extending shears, and last year there were too few dry days to do that. There's still work to be done, but we're getting there. One of the robins was obviously concerned that I was going to destroy his roosting place; he kept a close eye on what I was doing. There's plenty of hedge left for him to hide in.
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