I better not go butternut squash...

I did think at one point that I wouldn't get any butternuts squash growing on my plants but then they went mad. I went down to the allotment in the week to cut most of them off as the news said we could have a ground frost so I thought I better cut them off just incase. I cut the biggest ones and left a few on because they aren't really ripe yet, not turned the light orange colour. Now i'm not sure cutting them early do them as good as I find they don't turn orange at home unless it takes a few months. Any recipes please other than soup or rissoto to help me use up my harvest greatly received...

Picked the last of the french beans and couldn't believe blackfly are starting to take over but there aren't many more flowers left now so I left them too it.

One lonely courgette that wasn't growing any bigger for it to become a marrow over the last two weeks so that got picked too. All the courgette plants have been pulled up and the area dug over ready for whatever is next.

Lettuce & radish are starting to come through but just to keep the lettuce warm I though i'd use my little poly tunnel that I brought last year for ?1. How sweet i'm I.

Brought some onion sets at the garden centre as i've not quite given up on the seed ones I planted but I don't hold out much hope. They haven't grown at all & the grass is taking over. I'll leave them there and see what happens. Mind you I haven't feed the ground like I read some allotmenteers do perhaps I should.

We have made a start on our new plot. Our allotment manager strimmed it all and Hubby went down today to start rotivating only for the rotivator to start falling apart so it good be back breaking work to follow.