These are my last three "courgettes". Well OK, they're now full grown marrows. They'll spend the next few weeks in the kitchen at home, hardening off the skins (but they are already quite tough), before spending the rest of the winter in the shed. The big fat ones will be used as seeds for next year, the longer one will probably be eaten over the course of the winter months, in stews, soups and stir-frys. I just wish we had a freezer that we could keep stuff in, but a small London flat has no room for such a creature.
The real marrows still have a few left on them as well. Despite me keeping the canteen at work well stocked up with them.
We've now harvested the last of tomatoes from the greenhouse (they didn't get blight) and a load more runner beans. The beans seem to be producing a lot more flowers - perhaps it's this late summer sun? - so we'll leave the plants in place and see what we can get out of them.
The greenhouse still has plenty of flowers left which the wife looks after. She's wanting her own flower beds for next year. So I suppose I'll have to dig them out and build them ready. Anything to keep her happy.
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