Harvest time!

My friend Tony has already started picking his runner beans - mine haven't even got flowers yet!

But I did pick my first tomato today (though all the rest are green so it will be a while before I pick my second).

The loganberries and the raspberries are over, as are the blackcurrants. But I am getting fruit from the second redcurrant bush for my breakfast supplemented by blackberries from my neighbour's overgrown garden.

Today I picked blackberries from Leyton Marshes and the crumble is in the oven as I type. Really large berries!

I got spring onions, carrots and leeks on tape from Thompson and Morgan. Disaster! Nothing at all has germinated.

I enjoy getting stuff to eat from my garden, but luckily I don't depend on it.

My vegetable patch this year

The purpose of this second postis to try to insert a photograph. I have managed to upload a picture of myself - very unflattering, taken by me holding up the camera. So let's see if this time (third attempt at this) I can manage it.

Doesn't look good - a load of gibberish above this, which I hope will translate into a photo when I "publish" it.

This was a fairly typical day's picking from the vegetable patch (and I didn't harvest every day). Luckily I live on my own and have a good lunch at work.