We have had an almost unprecedented period of good weather comparable to the summer of 1976 so I have been watering every night. Thank goodness I had an outside tap fitted and bought a new hosepipe. 

Despite a good soaking every night the spinach is going to seed.

The courgettes are doing well this year, I almost didn't get any this year as for the last two years they have suffered from blossom end rot and not produced anything . Today I have five in the kitchen waiting to be eaten. I have already had two more.

So I searched for recipes and came up with spinach and courgette lasagne. I fried them up with some mushrooms , onions, garlic, spinach and nutmeg, made a cheese sauce and mixed it all together,

and layered it with lasagne sheets. The finished dish with some strawberries from the garden.

Meanwhile back in the vegetable garden the onions are filling out nicely, next year I must take note of what varieties I get and which do best. This year I bought three varieties but mixed them up in one bag, duh.

The chard is coming on nicely.

And as for the tomatoes, what can I say.  I used old seed and not expecting it to germinate I didn't take note of varieties again. Now I have two minigreenhouses full of them and more plants dotted round the garden all with flowers on.

As if that wasn't enough I bought some Tumbling Tom plants, little cherry tomatoes for hanging baskets.

The runner beans nave flowers on, but I have a sneaky feeling the birds are picking them off😡.

And the french beans have littlemauve flowers on.

And I've dug up the first row of potatoes,

and have started some peas, marrowfat variety Onward, and some dwarf beans, Hestia to plant out to follow on from the potatoes.

The beetroot are coming along nicely and are nearly ready for harvesting and the cut and come again lettuce are going mad so I had some with chilli prawns, coleslaw and potato salad made with my potatoes for my tea tonight.