This year above any other, growing everything under cover has well and truly paid off.
Some of my tomatoes got a touch of blight early on, but by pruning off the infected leaves slowed it's progress almost to a standstill. I thought that the crop would be much reduced but the stacks of bottled toms in our larder says otherwise, and there is probably another month before the greenhouse ones stop ripening.
Otherwise it's been a bumper year for everything else, I've been picking runner beans since the end of June and there's probably another week to go (they stopped flowering last week).
Sprouts, winter cabbages, spring cabbages, leeks, celeriac, PSB, beet, turnips, peas, haricot beans, lettuce, onions, carrots, cucumbers and courgettes all have done (or are doing) very well.
Garlic bulbs were on the small side though and I think I need to buy new stock for next year, and my potatoes finally succumbed to blight but I have very healthy ones growing now that may produce a crop in November.
One things for sure, I'm glad I bought those polytunnels.
