All else fails, you can make them into homemade booze.
Havent the foggiest if it tastes any good, but it is an option
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Courgette Boats are really nice:
- Halve them lengthways
- Scoop out seedy inners with teaspoon (leave about 1cm flesh around the edges)
- Half fill with finely diced onion
- Top with grated cheddar (press on firmly)
- Sprinkle with pepper
- Roast on GM6/180Ā°C Fan/200Ā°C for around 50 mins until courgettes soften
The flesh absorbs the onion flavour and goes really sweet, and the cheese seals all the juices in.
Maybe have 2 boats each with a chicken salad 
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The weather has not been kind to our garden the last couple of days.
Have been removing some of the destroyed plants today.
My garden has gone crazy with all the sun and then rain.
Courgettes, potatoes, carrots and green beans coming out of my ears.
Picked the last of the peas and first corn on the cob today.
I wish I could retire and just garden all day 
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First blackberries today. Still a little sour but give it a week
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Oh yum 
itās funny cos Iāve just been planning a blackberry and apple combo, only 20 mins ago. Really looking forward to them at this side. Do you have any plans at yours @Melody1 ?
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Freshly picked blackberries normally go in breakfast , cereals or porridge - they freeze well too. Apples I eat, they are really good, give away or store (normally lasting into December) . I do sometimes stew and freeze too.
I would like to get an apple press and juice but they are expensive (until I look at my Lovehoney bill over the last few months 
)
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Blackberries in porridge sound lovely. Iāll have to try that myself.
At the moment Iām resorting to supermarket frozen ones until my Grandadās ripen (we donāt have any at home). Heās a few years off 100 and still going strong; with an orchard, damsons, gooseberries and goodness know what else. With his age, it depends on who (or what) gets to the fruit first, so Iāll be fighting the neighbours, cleaning lady, and cows to them Iām sure 
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Iāll be extending my garden to foraging soon. Many of the fields around here used to be orchards before being converted to arable. There are still plenty of fruit trees left in amongst the hedgerows. Damsons sweet enough to eat raw, plenty of plums bearing no resemblance to the supermarket āripen at homeā rubber balls. Blackberries and apples as well if I were ever to run out. Unofficially sweetcorn and beans too lol
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Sheesh, arenāt some of the supermarket forced fruit offering terrible? I just love to eat damsons that are so ripe they just burst as theyāre bitten, then all that lovely sweet syrup runs down your hand before you know what happened.
Your garden sounds amazing, and such a selection! 
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Itās the main reason I moved here 
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Made hay while the sun shone and cut back my āmeadowā then spread beneath the apples tree to cushion the windfalls and make them easier to spot
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Have been trying to do a couple of small jobs in the garden but it is so hot we have had to come in ,will try in a little while when hopefully it is a little cooler.
yeah, it was deceptively warm out there today. I was doing battle with a bramble and nettle patch that was taking over so needed to be in long sleeve top and jeans to save being shredded. Then the sun came out and I was somewhat sweaty.
I think itās also been drier than I realised. The leaves on my courgettes have got that white stuff on (mould?) that I think means theyāve been short on water
I have a bit of a black thumb, so my plants donāt tend to have long lives 
Next year Iāll have more time and space for gardening, so Iād like to try planting some herbs (basil, cilantro, parsley, dill, and mint) and some easy flowers like pansies in the spring. Iād really love to be able to grow my own veggies and greens, but I know I need to take baby steps, otherwise Iāll just kill everything 
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Courgettes are real easy to grow , as are Rosemary , Sage and Thyme. Mint is easy too but perhaps in a pot as it can take over
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Iām planning to do a big pot for each herb so that they have plenty of room 
I use a ton of herbs in the kitchen, so the more the better! And then maybe try drying some to use in the winter 
Iād like to try growing beets too (when Iām confident enough to start on veggies) if theyāre not difficult
My mother in law has greens every summer (arugula, kale, spinach, romaine, and a few others) but she buys them already grown and in dirt, replants them and trims them for eating until until they stop producing. Is that a good method for greens, rather than trying to grow from seed?
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Bay trees are another that keep on giving and can be an āornamentalā feature too
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