Whilst the weather has been lovely not everything has liked it. We've had bumper crops of strawberries and cucumber, some varieties of tomatoes and aubergines have been the biggest crop We've seen, we picked 60 yesterday. Some things have been adversely affected by the heat, garlic although plentiful were small as were onions and shallots. Potatoes were and are a mixed bag Charlotte potatoes normally plentiful were low on amount yet the Jazzy potatoes were plentiful and next to the Charlotte's and produced 3 times the amount from the same number of seed potatoes. One of the apple trees is dropping fruit possibly as a survival mechanism as a couple of others across the site have done the same. We have some tomato varieties that are in torpor because of the heat but I think will ripen quickly as we go into a cooler period. Squash and courgettes are doing well, the romanesco went to seed quickly as did one of the cauli varieties but cabbages are thriving. We have our autumn planting veg almost ready to go out and will be planting potatoes for Christmas in the polytunnel. We are pickling, making chutney and jams as quickly as we can . We are making some spirit infusions , we tried one last year a quince infused gin concoction called Ratafi that worked well. This year we are making a crabapple vodka, a blackberry whisky, and two quince infused mixes one with gin the other with brandy with citrus peel, ginger, bayleaf and demerara and white sugar. depending on the spirit. They should all be ready by the end of the year so we will have some new yuletide tipples to sample.