This week my garden will be mostly wearing red; the colour of the fruits ripening.

All that industriousness in the spring is now paying off.

The biggest success flavour wise, has to be my tomatoes. If you have room to grow big beef tomatoes, then I urge you to grow Legend. I have grown them in the Greenhouse but they are also suitable for growing outside and are blight resistant.

I have never tasted tomatoes so flavoursome and juicy. A taste I have never experienced from shop bought tomatoes.

As we are approaching autumn, I have given the tomatoes a drastic tidy. Removing the foliage and exposing them to the sun to help with ripening. In the process, I discovered a gang of very naughty caterpillars, helping themselves to my tomatoes, so they have been removed and re homed at the top of the garden out of harms way.

My chillies are turning ruby red too. I have gone a bit overboard with them. I successfully sowed thirty plants and it wasn’t until I found out that each plant could potentially have ten fruits each, that I began to give them away to friends. I like chilli but three hundred of them!

I have also grown a couple of pepper plants, which are now turning red. I bought the plants from the garden centre, so I am looking forward to comparing the taste of those to shop bought specimens.

Out in the vegetable garden. The sweetcorn is almost ready for picking. If we continue to have this lovely sunny weather this week, I think they will be ready to eat next weekend. When homegrown, they are so sweet. I pick them and plunge them into boiling water, then smother them in butter. My mouth is watering at the thought.

I have noticed that the mornings are a little colder, with lots of dew on the grass and car windows. My butternut squashes are growing nicely but I am a little concerned with the impending frosts. A little research is needed, so if you have any tips on squashes, I would be very grateful. I wouldn’t want them to turn to mush before I have had chance to taste their deliciousness.