Back in the garden, collapsing onions and fat round courgettes

Hello to you all and happy July! I can’t quite believe it is already midsummer: the last three bright, sunny, joy-filled months seem to have whizzed by faster than the first three heel-dragging weeks of far-off, grey and drizzly January.

I hope you have been enjoying a wonderful gardening week, whether you’ve been basking in the sunshine or dodging the …