Ron and Shirley arrived today, so after we had fed them tea and courgette cake, we took them down to see the allotment and while there we had a major harvesting session.  This included another heap of gherkins, all of which are going to Essex for pickling more courgettes/marrows and the first of our follow-on crop of peas.  The new peas are again lovely and we’re already talking about trying to get some serious successional planting of peas going for next year.