Pink rocket

Geese not required

Metamorphosis

        First of the year's tadpoles contemplating life as a frog.

Cloth of gold

 

Cucurbita pepo

Courgettes in flower. Waiting for the first fruit to form. Watering copiously and feeding with comfrey brew.

Floral celery

      Last year's celery left to flower and seed attracts many insects.

Brodacea

           Brodacea (and carnations) thriving in the hot weather.

Midsummer black

Midsummer pink

Green shield

                                                                 Palomena prasina

Tayberry

 

A cross between a raspberry and a blackberry, fruits before both.

Open the pod doors

Deploy nets

The allotment cat has only been working part-time and mice have been taking unripe strawberries and storing them at the base of raspberry bushes. Pigeons have a sweet tooth too, so nets and wire frames have been deployed. Still enough left for a human to harvest a kilo to make two jars of jam, with the promise of more to come.

A hoya, again

First of the mohicans

Hot dish

Get yer knobs out!

                    Celeriac seedlings, aka 'knob celery' (?!)

Trachelospermum jasminoides