Still Growing

Underwatered while everyone was off on holiday, the first tomatoes of the summer went rotten at the bottom and had to be thrown on the compost heap. Over the past week a second, slightly misshapen batch has begun to ripen in the greenhouse, joined by a few plump circles on the vegetable patch outside. Elsewhere, runner beans droop by fence posts, basil leaves turn to seed pods, flowers begin to shrivel up and flake away and the final radish crop swells in a plastic container.