It’s been a busy weekend at the plot, the highlight of which was harvesting the first of the main crop potatoes. We really didn’t know what to expect, so were excited to see pinky red tubers come tumbling out of the trug as we tipped it onto the earthy bare area in the middle of the lawn.

Half of them - 1.2kg - looked fantastic. Unfortunately the other half was rotting at the bottom of the trug, and had blistered in the earth. I wonder whether it was blight. This was the crop showing brown edges on the leaves, after all. Anyhow, we rescued what was good and took them home to eat, and they were far better than the new potatoes we harvested last time around. If we took red salad potatoes to be the closest equivalent and bought them at Waitrose, they would have cost £3.82.

Rotten red potato

We took down the last of the bean vines, and found the French ones having a last-gasp attempt to produce some flowers which would, eventually, have turned into a few more beans. Too late, really. Especially as the dwarf French beans are not growing so well.

We harvested some tomatoes and broccoli (and were eating the tomatoes five minutes later in soft white rolls), moved the cabbages into the plot and then set about transplanting the squash, which are now far too big for the 9cm pots in which we started them, into trugs behind the greenhouse.

They look quite jaunty there now, and hopefully now have enough room to spread their roots and produce some decent-sized fruits. Looking at the prices in Somefield the other day, if they produce as much as the seed packet promised, and each one survives, they could be a crop worth £100.

Which means we’re going to have to start making soup in earnest.

Squash plants in trugs