Somehow, in the last week, we have switched from scary hot summer to ‘back to normal’. It’s warmish in the day, windy, with temperatures dropped below 10 deg C on some nights. We finally had 3 days with some rain this week, and a lot of it…it took us to about 50% of a historical rainfall total for July, the only 3 days of rain this month — a lot better than most parts of Northern Europe. I think it’s therefore time to show you some of my lovely summer veggies before the cool nights start to make them sulk.

Here’s a fruit and vegetable special for my #SixOnSaturday this week.

I will start with the promise of things to come. In the greenhouse the grape vine is producing a huge amount of fruit this year. I’m having to tie up some of the branches to stop them breaking. These will be large sweet and purple in about a month.

On the back wall of the greenhouse (south-facing), I have tried a squash that usually doesn’t make it outdoors. Trombocino — what a ridiculous plant….this fruit is about 40cm long. Perhaps time to harvest soon in the hope it’s smaller siblings may grow too.

While we are in the greenhouse, tomatoes are late this year. I may manage a tomato-special soon, but for now, here is the wonderful ‘blue fire’ ripening to blue — it will go purple later as the red pigment comes. Yummy!

In the garden. Runner beans often do well here in eastern Scotland. They are large, early and very succulent this year. It is already hard to keep on top of the harvest, picking before they become woody.

I am very proud of my outdoor courgettes this year. They may well feature again in future weeks. For now, this is a classic fruit, actually as big and strong as the supermarket delivers. but I swear these are fully organic, sweeter, tastier, and there are no food miles…..20m from plant to frying pan.

Last, a delicious pea, can’t remember the variety. The pods are a wonderful purple, but the pea just regular green. I tried a few early as mange tout, but nope, horrible and stringy. So peas do need to be podded. Ah well, at least they are easy to find.

I’ve really enjoyed growing veg this year, despite the need for very regular watering. I hope you enjoyed the view too.

Do join in with your own 6 things from a garden. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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