Hasty harvest only today under a cloudy sky.

Dinner was augmented by a mixed salad of lettuce, wild rocket, chop suey greens, land cress and salad onions. Tomatoes still big, red and sweet. The chillies are now turning red rapidly - a spectacular show in the autumnal gloom.

Four large cobs of corn proved very tasty but still a bit tough after 8 minutes boiling - just too late with the harvest again. More successful was the chard relative Erbette, just like chard should be in fact, tasty but yielding in texture. A new staple crop.

A walk down Moorfoot Lane revealed a vast number of sloes and a few rosehips. I'll wait until after the first frost before taking these.