After a slow start, our geraniums are nicely in bloom and the "Rose of Sharon" is a mass of yellow flowers.
I had mentally written off the crop of garlic cloves I planted out in a couple of tubs last autumn, but amazingly, when we came to pull them up, they had all developed new bulbs, some not a bad size at all, so we have a dozen of them drying off in the kitchen.
The two courgettes I planted out in a growbag have thrived, the only problem being they're obviously not courgettes
- they're marrows! I'm not quite sure what went wrong there .... 
So far we've had a couple off them. Similarly the tomatoes seem to be bearing a lot of green fruit, waiting to ripen, but the peppers and chillies aren't particularly advanced yet.
Unlike many of you oop north, we've had virtually no rain down in Dorset over the last three weeks or so, and the water butt is now empty. Could really do with a decent downpour ....
