Some wild weather this week. From a couple of lovely 22 degC days at the end of June, to a chilly, windy, wet 14 degC on Friday. Luckily no crazy heatwaves this far north. In fact, it is now as cool here as Shetland was when I was there for summer solstice 10 days ago.

There’s lots of luscious growth in my early July garden, though the wind is battering the blooms. And I don’t even want to mention my courgette plants, shivering in the wet and wind with just 4-5 small leaves each. Yet, elsewhere, there is veg aplenty. Edible therefore feature for this week’s #SixOnSaturday.

Straight into the greenhouse this week. I’m very proud of this year’s peaches. My peach tree is never very happy, and often plays host to vine weevil, but this year a few more of the flowers were germinated. These are as delicious as they look.

While we are in the warm and dry, a few tomatoes are having a go. This one is a 3ft high variety, early fruiting, ideal for the greenhouse bench. These fruit are on the west facing side, and have been enjoying those sunny days.

Outside, I have been less lucky this year with strawberries. I had a few plants die back last year, the new ones are not really thriving, and I caught a red squirrel sneaking under the bird netting to get at the juiciest fruit. But they are a few, and such a gorgeous thing to behold, and to taste.

For once I’ve managed some successional sowing of lettuce, so we have lots of lovely salad right now, and they seem to be thriving in cool wet weather.

Some of the potatoes are looking good. I think these are ‘salad blue’. the purple flowers have a lovely scent, so far the foliage is standing tall against wind and rain.

Last, but by no means least, herb fennel stand 3m high, provide lots of interest and some tasty salad leave. And the flowers are just coming, delicate, pretty, and covered in overflies when the rain holds off.

I hope you liked my veggie #SixOnSaturday. Still not much sign of any longish warmth in Fife yet this summer. 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