Summer has finally arrived at the Garden. With all the rain of the past few weeks everything has gone wild,  quite literally in the case of wild flowers, and, as ever, we're working like crazy to keep on top of the grass and the weeds...

In the polytunnel the tomatoes are all in and the salad leaves are growing nicely, the French beans are just starting to appear...

while outside the brief asparagus season has finished and currently broad beans are the bumper crop. 

We began by eating the tiny little young beans straight from the pod - delicious with a hunk of Pecorino cheese and a glass of Frascati. Now the beans are more mature they are best shelled and boiled for a couple of minutes and then mashed with olive oil and garlic to form a filling for ravioli or a topping for bruschetta.

Next up in the vegetable beds should be garlic, runner beans and the first of the main crop potatoes. In the fruit garden the raspberries are beginning to ripen and the gooseberries are tantilisingly close to being ready.

There is still lots of  weeding and watering to be done and some beds to prepare for brassicas and winter produce.

The last of the, very straggly, tomatoes, runner beans and squash that didn't get planted are still here if anyone forgot to put theirs in or need to replace failures.