Anyone with an allotment?

I'm not sure - it's sort of halfway between a courgette and a squash and has been fruiting for a while and still a few more to come. We're not very good at feeding the things generally although they do get watered, so also wondered if it was a sign of poor nutrition or disease.

halfway between a courgette and a squash

A Squargette?

Could be a summer squash? I'm never quite sure what's malnutrition or disease in the yellow-spotting leaves stakes. Provided you've got a decent amount of fruit off it I would just leave it.

I did once get a pumpgette cross from some saved seed. Shaped like a huge courgette, hard orange skin with a bit of green on it. I was lead to believe this would be a tasteless hybrid, but it was actually pretty decent.

A few years ago I grew some Speckled Swan gourds from seed.
I just left them in the shed and only 1 out of 4 survived the drying/curing.

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Here it is now - light as a feather

never did get round to putting strings on :)

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Will you make a musical instrument out of it?

I've thought about but I'm not sure if it is strong enough and I don't want to find out.

Does this look like hazel?

There’s a lot of it in the this field so I don’t think it will be missed.

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Looks wrong leaf shape for Hazel.

https://www.discoverthewild.co.uk/post/british-tree-leaves-sheet

That’s a shame. Thought these would be great for beans etc etc

They may still be useful?

Looks more like ash.

Is this one of the badduns? The reporting email in the article isn't valid now.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stink-bugs-invasive-species-crops-b1809209.html

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It definitely looks to me like one.

I'm going to say 'No'. It doesn't have the rounded shoulders.

Edit: I'm not an expert and it's probably worth reporting if you can, though.

I think you're right, more likely Forest SB looking at this Id page

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/05/shieldbug-identification/

Yep, that looks spot on.

Last tomato harvest of the year… probably.

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Ah, cheers, I was obviously talking nonsense. Shield bugs are probably all quite similar, but as ever with identifying animals or plants, there are certain key characteristics that one has to know to look out for, so the picture you used is very useful.

+1 it was the (lack of) white leg bands that helped me confirm.

Last of my potatoes, sweetcorn and my one apple (will be split 4 ways this evening). Spuds were self-saved sarpo mira. They were in a lot of shade but resisted the blight and actually produced some decent sized tubers. Leaving them in the ground so long meant a few of them got quite nibbled though.

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Apple was amazing, court of wick variety, never tasted anything like it.

Bought a 3-plant blueberry selection from Thomson and Morgan off eBay. One of the plants arrived looking quite diseased so I complained and they sent me a replacement. But instead of replacing the one plant that was duff, they sent another three. Happy with that.

Nice. What are the leaves?

What are the leaves?

Well, I’m pretty sure they are a rogue Nero De Toscana kale plant, grown from a seed that accidentally made its way into my Brussels sprouts seeds at the packing place (I checked the real seeds website and the plant looks the same)
I don’t have any other kale seeds and planted the seedling out with my sprouts but it’s clearly not a sprout. Was very tasty though!