As the tide went out this morning birds enjoyed the mud flats.
Egret
Black headed gull
I made a delicious salad last night to go with our salmon, using fresh broad beans lightly steamed, fresh courgette in half moons lightly fried and all tossed in a white wine and olive oil vinaigrette with freshly chopped mint leaves. I love our allotment produce.. 
We ate our first tomato today and it was delicious! Here it is just before I picked it.
We’ve harvested the shallots and brought them home to cure in the sunshine. We are delighted with the number we have, having thought they were not doing well.
The Drumstick Aliums are loved by all sorts of pollinators, especially bees.
Allium sphaerocephalon
At the allotment this morning, a Gatekeeper butterfly was enjoying the pollinator border.
I was in Falmouth to sing at the folk club this evening. The water in the harbour near where I parked, was so still and blue and beautiful.
Leaving, in the dark, reflections of lights in the water, the same patch as in the previous photo, caught my eye.
One of our neighbours has a really lovely garden of wild flowers.
Several allotments have magnificent cardoons growing.
Cynara cardunculus also called the artichoke thistle
A couple of cats visit the allotment – this time it was the very beautiful Bengal.
Bengal beauty
We love our very delicate Lace Cap hydrangea and are doing our best to keep it happy during the drought. Happily, we have some rain today. . 
We are delighted with our tomato crop. There are fifty green ones so far and we hope they all ripen – otherwise there’ll be lots of green tomato chutney.
There were lots of ladybirds on the sweetcorn in a neighbour’s allotment plot. 
On another plot was this lovely colour combination.
On our plot, one of the poppies had bloomed unseen but had left me a petal on a cabbage leaf.
I’m loving being able to make new salady dishes with food we have grown. This recipe was from BBC Good Food and is cucumber and fennel in a sour cream and vinegar sauce. It was delicious! Our evening meal of a locally made pie also had homegrown potato salad and homegrown leaves. Pud is another meringue filled with creme fraiche and homegrown tayberries and black currants from the garden.
I love that, despite everything going on, Ukrainians in Kyiv are having a book festival. Brilliant poster.
A lovely friend has sent me a photo of a delightful postbox topper near her in Truro.
We spent a couple of hours at the allotment after lunch, clearing the huge number of weeds that have sprung up since the overnight shower a couple of nights ago. 
For a reward/treat, I picked all the ripe Tayberries in our back garden, put them on a meringue ring that I had filled with creme fraiche and sprinkled a little vanilla sugar over – utterly delicious and very well deserved!
Our lilies in a chimney pot are in full bloom.
Our allotment is suddenly showing growth – onions, leeks, shallots, potatoes, mostly coming on well though our red onions are being rather slow.
I love the brightness of marigolds and we have the first in our pollination border.
We’ve had more of our new potatoes tonight with butter and mint – delicious!
We have two tiny tomatoes on our plants, one on each. We go down to the lottie every evening to water them and check on progress and were delighted to find the beginnings of a harvest!
One of our potato plants was in flower so I pulled it up and dug for new potatoes. I got a whole bucketful, just a LiveWire’s sand bucket but full nonetheless!
Our strawberries are ripening nicely too, nearly enough for a Strawberry Shortcake…….
Eating just grown fruit and veg makes all the hard work so worth it.
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