Tardy Courgettes

This morning I recorded in my perpetual diary my first loganberries (4) and saw that on 25 June 2008 (ie 4 years ago yesterday) I picked my first courgette. The only courgette this year that has survived the snails and slugs is still small, leaves not big enough or tough enough to put off slugs and snails if they get over the slug collars. And they have managed this for the other 2 courgettes and the pumpkin, which are now just stalks! We've had the rain, but not much warmth. Hopefully as time passes everything will catch up and we won't have early frosts to shorten the growing season the other end!