The garden is disappointing me this Summer. It seems very slow to take off and I don't know why. My bean flowers are disappearing as quickly as they appear and I don't know what's eating them. The dwarf beans are a lost cause. Lettuces bolted ages ago, although there are a few still out there. I only have 2 peppers growing out of about a zillion plants (perhaps time to close the greenhouse? I've left it open all the time for a good month or two now which probably defeats the object).  Melons, chillis and watermelons have no flowers yet, squashes are slow to grow. I'm sure they're normally enormous trailing plants by this stage of the Summer. Beetroot is a lost cause. It's so disheartening. Tomatoes are really slow too, although I'm harvesting a few of the Tumbling Toms at last. Bit fed up to be honest.

Plums..

While I was putting the tree netting up I had a quick count of the plums on our tree. I counted 85!!!!! I'd better get researching plum recipes :)

Failures so far this year: lettuce (as usual), dwarf beans, beetroot.