It’s shaping up to have been a pretty good year at The Secret Acre, despite the very dry weather.

Where crops simply failed in last year’s unseasonable rain, at least the gardener has the chance to water things, especially, if like us, you live in a well-managed area like Severn Tent Water, which rarely needs a hosepipe ban.

So most things are back to growing reasonably well, even if the fruits are a bit undersized from the lack of rain.