Photo journal of the jonah plot

It's been a busy year in general and the plot has been a bit worse for wear. We've put up a fruit cage (already vandalized...) and now have the components of a shed on site waiting to be constructed. The fruit has been pretty good this year - best year yet for blackcurrants and boysenberries. Some of the other fruit plants (strawberries, raspberries, loganberry, tayberry, cultivated blackberry) settling in. We harvested five plums this year and they were lovely and sweet-tart!

Charlotte potatotes were a success and the King Edwards are awaiting our attention.

The beans have been slooooow and low yielding. The peas all went over after setting few pods, so we've eaten basically no mangetout or peas!

The courgettes are sad and small and not actually yielding a single courgette. The tromboncincos have seemingly set a fruit each but the plants are so puny...The white pumpkins croaked and only one of the several orange pumpkins (Big Max) has set a fruit........Cucumbers - puny and no properly developed fruit this year.

Corn in the fruit cage is an absolute dud. Corn at the back of the plot has alternately failed and grown beautifully - probably not leaving enough plants for proper germination.

Beetroot - <raspberry sound effect>. Chillies and peppers - didn't make it past seedling stage. Carrots - a few but extremely ordinary in flavor. Tomatoes - suffering in small pots and not eaten one yet. Spinash - a few leaves before going over. So..........better luck next year (and with some very late sowings in a hope against hope type scenario...)

Here are some pictures of nice bits to reward you for reading this far.

   

Beans with a lovely flower color

   

   

Trombo according to my labeling...
       

Don't mind my ratty label for the sunflowers. These beans have been the only ones interested in producing much this year.
   

Looking forward to seeing this one with its lovely dark stem
   

Jacob's Cattle Gold (I think that's the name!) beans. So few but so pretty