It may be too late for Scotland, but the weather message for England is to get out there and pick anything nearly ripe on Saturday before it gets blown off on Sunday!
4kg of walnuts- less than half truly ripe, fallen from the wind.
Dad has taken home a dozen green plum tomatoes, also relieved of their positions.
Nonetheless:
6 huge ripe beefsteak toms;
40+ small, sweet yellow plum tomatoes;
a similar number of chillies- habanero and thai;
2 butternut squash;
6 cucumbers;
7 fully sized corn cobs;
3 beautiful, blemish-free purple aubergines;
half a dozen baby turnips;
a dozen purple heritage carrots;
a bag load of rainbow chard;
and the usual herbs, including a glut of horseradish.
Happy harvest!
Bertie, Itchen Valley.
'We'll never see 40 celsius in this country'.