For us in the far north, this has been the year without
a summer. Some things have done well but there have
been disasters. The flower borders are looking as they
should have looked in mid July. The beetroot are up
and down, mostly down but the onions and leeks (grown
in a raised bed for the first time) have been stunning.
Peas have only produced in the last three weeks and the
runner beans were written off by late July. I have just
returned from a week 'darn sarf' to see the grandchildren
only to find one of the best crops of runner beans that
I have ever had. There was nothing there a week ago
and this morning my first picking of the season yielded
4 kilos of super beans. This must be high summer for us!

Phil
Northern Highlands of Scotland