The trees timetable has sped up considerably, I picked the crabapples yesterday of the wild plot on the site, you tell the readiness by the colour of the pips I bit into one to expose the pips expecting sourness and was pleasantly surprised , the apple tree that's shedding will be picked by the weekend, chilli jelly, pie filling and chutney will be the uses for them as they're a cooking apple. Our corn is a couple of weeks away but looking good, we've picked most of our peas, our borlotti beans are a couple of weeks away we've cleared a couple of beds ready for autumn planting and will be doing a summer pruning of our pear tree as we still have few water shoots that have to come off, we've managed to get it to fruit with a couple of years of fairly severe pruning as it had not been looked after for several years. All in all I can't complain after last year's wet and relatively cold summer.