Things that are expensive.
Mange tout peas.
French beans.
Asparagus, although you will have to wait 3 years to harvest that.
Bit late to plant mange-tout and french beans but they’d be good for next year.
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Sounds like a good approach and @vero is quite right (of course) about compost derived from the dechetterie.
Leek plants should still be available in August, or at least they are usually still in the markets here then. Garlic is good sown in the autumn, as are broad beans, if school hasn’t put you off those. Anything Japanese is often good for sowing late too.
I do hope that’s is the last of those sorts of UK visits 
I grow mine in 1/2 barrels, I plant 3 plants into a mixture of compost/soil and coir, they don’t like cold so they go in a bit later than potatoes and around the time I plant tomatoes outside.
I usually don’t stake them in the barrels, I just keep the stalks flat in the barrels so they can layer themselves, they like plenty water and feed and that’s it, never had any pest problems and after a quite slow start they go nuts.
Barrels make watering easier/more economical and harvesting is easy as you just tip them out.
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Blimey, what do you feed them - 3 x weetabix?
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Won’t that be full of weed seeds?
Depending how they process it, it may have been treated with high temperatures… I’ve never bought any so can’t be sure.
6 month old chicken poop mixed with seaweed feed to make a liquid and diluted into a watering can, works wonders on my veg and tomatoes.
Some of our plants melon, water melon, leeks, carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes and sweet potatoes, even the semperfloren begonia go large on the feed 
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@wozza is it time to prune my plums now the fruit is done? i seem to remember you mentioned this is the time to do it, last year.
Also for when I get around to pruning some other trees, your mention of smearing vaseline on the cut of the branch left sounded a good idea for some trees I’d like to be careful with. But as Sud-Ouest of France is too far from Poundland, (giant tubs for £1 in my ex-local) do you know of any more economical sources for large quantities of Vaseline?
Now you’re just showing off! 
Joking aside, I’m impressed. 
Less so about the 
poop.
I got a big pot from Action to treat my chickens legs for 99c I think. Was a fee years ago though.
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This time of year you shouldn’t worry too much about covering the cuts if the weather is warm & dry for the next few days after pruning.
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Shouldn’t worry about covering cuts even if it isn’t. Trees don’t heal like people.
“Most [Certified Arborists now agree that the use of tree wound dressing or pruning sealant is not advisable. Far from helping a tree to recover, these products actually make the tree more susceptible to rot and disease.
Not great for a product to do the opposite of why you bought it. This also applies to the new batch of “natural” products available which tend to include aloe vera gel, pectin, or collagen. There’s no evidence to suggest that any of these is beneficial to a tree.”
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In most cases I’d agree, but not if the tree has canker from Silver leaf.
Extract from the RHS
“Where possible, carry out all pruning in July or August when tissues are most resistant. This is also the best time to prune in order to minimise the risk of infection by spores of the fungus causing silver leaf disease. Cut out all cankered areas, pruning back to healthy wood and painting promptly with a wound paint to protect the wound from re-infection. Details of wound paint products can be found in the ‘Fungicides for gardeners’ document below. Burn or landfill the prunings.”
If tree has canker frô silver leaf isn’t it best to remove it so as not to affect other trees?
Thank you @Wozza.
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That’ll be overkill. Just cut back the infected branch.
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@Griffin36 …For last three years I’ve bought a healthy a sweet potato plant and each year it grows a few centimetres and then that’s it…what am i doing wrong?