Very VERY late this year, but I’m finally getting to some fruit and veg. Here are some edibles for my #SixOnSaturday. Starting with raspberries, as they are just coming. A few cheeky blackbirds have helped themselves, but they leave most of these delicious fruit for us. These are supposed to be ‘autumn fruiting’: they tend to go from July-November so are great value.

In the veg beds near the raspberries I always grow some chard. They do very well in the cool of Scotland, and are just coming to the ready-to-eat point now.

Near them, in a supposedly sunny spot, courgette usually do well. This year I have just a few tiny ones so far, fingers crossed the flowering means that the fruit will grow before they rot now.

In the greenhouse, the one plant that is absolutely loving a cool year is cucumber. I’ve made up several jars of pickle from them so far, and it looks like there will be many more.

Chillies are SLOW, yet my huge over-winter Alberto Rocoto is coming good. There are lots of purple flowers now, and the first fruit have set. These will end up bright red and about the size of plum tomatoes.

Last, but very much not least (I hope), the very first tomatoes to ripen will be consumed thsi weekend.

I hope you enjoyed my first fruit and veg special of the season. And 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, its 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