Not much knitting going on here at the moment – most of the action is out in the garden. This week I've been picking herbs and hanging them up to dry in the sun before crumbling them and stashing them in a jar, ready to add a splash of summer to winter tomato sauces.

I've found a bulldog clip is really useful in drying them quickly rather than bunching them with string which takes longer for the stems to dry out.

Hope there's a little sunshine with you this weekend.

Over the weekend we dug up the first of our potato bags. It seems however that we were a bit previous, for although there are over 50 potatoes in there, most are the size of peas! I s'pose that's what you get for being impatient!

Still, we have another 8 bags still growing so fingers crossed for bigger ones in a month or so.

Thanks to a spell of wet weather followed by lots of warm sunshine everything here in the garden has exploded!

and we're starting to reap the rewards from all of our hard work – here's our first homegrown courgette – yum!

Hope it's good growing weather with you!