The second brood of swallows in the end of the barn fledged today. Their flight was a short hop across to one of the beams. Later in the day they started exploring a kept coming in to the new part of the barn to see what I was doing…then couldn’t find their way out again.
I go away for a few days and I find the courgettes have been taking over
There are more on the way and I’ve left one to grow into a marrow.
We’ve also got one squash large enough to eat…well football sized. We think its a spaghetti squash – now I just have to fight my way to the label at the base of the plant to confirm it!
I foolishly put my sweetcorn plants out into the poly tunnel to harden off. They were in a secondary mini greenhouse which I thought would protect them from any weather. How wrong I was, most of them got frosted. It looks like 2 or 3 will survive, so I’ll have to get replanting.
Yes! At noon today, there was a bat milling around above the pond, hunting insects. I suppose the weather’s been so dreadful that they haven’t been able to hunt at night and are very hungry. He was far too fast for me to get a photo, but judging by the enormity of his ears, I suspect he was a Long-Eared Bat!
Well, during the last month I constructed in my mind all sorts of exciting, witty & inspired posts which didn’t happen because of the broken blog. I have now forgotten them all. So here’s a summary of some of August’s happenings…
Things have been growing fast in the tunnel, its beginning to look like last year (where the squashes took over).
Compare to earlier in the year here
I planted too many squash plants in the poly tunnel, its now like some sci-fi experiment gone bad. The squashes have taken over, tendrils are going everywhere. I found this:
hiding down at the back, I don’t know how it got so big ( nearly 12″ by 7″), hopefully it will fit in the oven. We think its a spaghetti squash, but I didn’t make a note of what I planted where 
