As we had uncovered the strawberries in order to use the cover on the grapes, I made a new strawberry bed cover.  The 2nd strawberry harvest is beginning and the birds have already had the first few.

We are enjoying our own pears (du Comice) and apples (gala).  Cucumbers, zucchini, beans, corn, lettuce, tomatoes and potatoes are all busy producing more food than we can eat!

Over the last few days I have abandoned weeding the garden in favour of tidying the tomatoes in the tunnel house.  It was impossible to get in the door to reach the ripe, red fruit I could see hanging from the vines!  I pruned off branches, laterals, leaves – anything in order to restake the plants and be able to see the fruit!  Unfortunately the stakes are not able to go into the ground very far, so they don’t offer much support to the large plants.  This meant the the plants had grown so big and heavy that they had pulled the stakes over to the ground.  I fixed this by tying the top of the stakes to the roof supports of the tunnel house.  The result is beautiful!

Yesterday I sowed seeds in the glasshouse (all in punnets from the nursery with either 4, 6 or 9 holes).
The seeds were as follows:
Lettuce 6 holes each of freckles, Odell’s, red salad bowl, red flame
Rocket – runway 6 holes
Spinach – winter giant 18 holes
Celery – nutty 4 holes
Broccoli 2 holes each of de cicco and raab spring rapini
Cabbage – vertus savoy 2 holes
Cauliflower – purple cape 2 holes
Artichoke – Purple de Jesi 12 holes.

I also sowed a large patch of carrots (1 seedling cover in size) of paris market and berlicum.