Mine’s eight inches

16 August 2009

286g of cucumber, with more like this one still coming on the plants. I see a week of Philadelphia and cucumber sandwiches ahead. I could even add in some freshly harvested beetroot, if I was feeling wild. The runner beans I’ve picked would be better for dinner though, I think. I’ve got some good stuff growing in the patch now and even the sweetcorn is showing signs of producing cobs.

Something has also been kind enough to continue my theme of Things I Didn’t Plant And Yet Are Growing: I found a chrysalis tucked up inside in a silk cocoon on the underside of a beetroot leaf. The leaf and its resident are now indoors in a jam jar in my office, where I occasionally turn from my computer to make sure that the chrysalis hasn’t opened without me noticing and that there isn’t now a big monster behind me about to eat my head without so much as a “how do you do?”