The salsify roots have flowered and what beautiful flowers they are – and edible too, apparently. The salsify is a root vegetable said to taste like oysters. As I have never eaten oysters I wouldn’t be able to confirm this but I find them fiddly to peel and pretty tasteless. Oysters?

Another strange feature of salsify flowers is that they open in the morning and close in the afternoon.

Yesterday evening Jeremy asked me to hand him a large bowl. “I’m collecting a surprise for you”. He returned with a bowl full of new potatoes – Sharps Express

J had grown potatoes in part of the poly tunnel last year. After he lifted the spuds a few got left behind and began to grow and multiply and, Hey Presto, very early new potatoes