We are now fully into the swing of summer. Currently we’re a little less warm, and a little ore wet, than most of May. The garden loves it. To celebrate this crazy ‘don’t know what to pick’ for my Six season, I’ve chosen some lovely blooms and the first edibles of the season, to show you for this week’s #SixOnSaturday.

I’m very proud to present some super-early tomatoes. The variety is Galina. This plant is only about 0.3m high still, but just could not wait to start flowering and fruiting. Lots of wonderful tomato salad coming soon.

And to go with them, some wonderful lettuce, although these will have gone to seed long before the tomatoes are ripe. I’d better sow some more, fast.

And what would make a really lovely salad is to throw in a few broad beans. As you can see, these are a little way off yet. This is one was being pollinated this morning by, I think, a common carder bumble bee. Our family name for this is the ‘mink shawl bee’ as it seems to be wearing a little fur coat!

As for flowers, there are SO many! Some llovely lemony sage has burst into incredibly bright tall flower this year. What a gorgeous purple flush in the herb bed.

One of my favourite flowers of the year is astrantia. Wonderful form, fantastic details and lovely colours. I could look at this bloom for hours.

Finally this week, I planted a load of mixed dianthus in a slightly sorry-looking bed near the veg garden. Though it might be nice to coax in some insects. POW…..an amazing flush of colour, and they also smell lovely. I’m a complete convert to these plants now.

I hope you liked my #SixOnSaturday now we are fully into summer. I wonder what this summer will bring, hopefully a warm and stable weather pattern, but only time will tell. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, it’s a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot