My new garden helper, Stephanie

Bedankt Stephanie voor je hulp met Jana! Je bent een goede honden trainer! En een glimlach op de foto is toch een beetje gelukt!

My 2 melons now have little hammocks to support them!

All the ingredients for ratatouille!

Well almost all... I had to add bought garlic - what a let down!

A panful of ratatouille, 29th August

Another thing to plant lots more of next year!

Sweet corn for supper! 29th August

8 pots of plum jam, 29th August

The onions all strung up under the verandah

I should have planted far more onions!

Plums in brandy in the making

The first 3 outside tomatoes, 29th August

At last there are 2 beautiful stripey melons on my melon plants!

The head gardner picking plums

Blue sky through the plum branches

Casper's photo from under the plum tree

Cecile admiring Nancy's Cosmea

Lots of ripe plums, 20th August

Sweet corn, 20th August

Pumpkin flower, 20th August

Pumpkin coming on slowly, 20th August

Red (!) peppers, 20th August

Greenhouse tomatoes, 20th August

Augergines, 20th August

Seeds sprouting nicely in the greenhouse, 20th August

Chicken thighs with fennel and tomato from the garden

Rainbow chard in the wok

Rainbow chard

More flowers from the garden