Below, more cabbages. Looking good. C found a spray for brassicas which kept of most of the butterflies and caterpillars which usually wreak havoc on them. You do have to keep brassicas covered until fairly sizeable to avoid butterflies and birds. Birds peck them to oblivion.
Horse poop rotting away where onions once grew. Jerusalem artichoke behind which will probably be ignored for about the fifth year running.
Below, you can see some of the tomatoes I strapped to the wire fence. They have all been and gone so soon and I am without even any green ones.
I was ripening squash skins in the sun but they've been indoors a couple of weeks after the frost threatened. I still have a few to harvest off the plants.
Below, more lousy swede, tiny carrots and pencil thin summer leekd.
In the raised beds. All the carrots have been eaten. The spinach is indestructible and we've been eating it for months and months; I'm turning into Popeye.
Casting your eyes over the fruit plot you can see that nothing much is happening. We have picked the few pears and few apples.
The new rhubarb looks massive and I'm going to whip a bit before it's finished for the season.
The days are numbered for the courgettes and squashes. Fruit production has slowed almost to standstill and we need the bays back to fill with muck once more. The rotted contents of these will be taken out first.
The potatoes were lifted and stored a few weeks ago. Since then the winter onions, garlic and shallots have been planted and we intend to get raspberry canes for next to the muck bays. The last few years of raspberries have been meagre. So new plants in new location for 2021.
Below, the trellis of squashes, courgette and nasturtiums.
Sweet dumpling squashes.
Beans! Not a fan of much beanage. The lima beans are nice. I eat green beans but the runner beans can get lost. We've trying to save our own seed as much as we can for next year so are drying out some on the plants.
The second crop of peas never materialised under the net. The sweetcorn has all been harvested. Half eaten, half frozen. Good stuff, best too early than too late. These bits are drying out apparently.
The strawberry plants which failed to fruit again were ripped out in disgust. A late sowing of pumpkin plants went in as C want's to make pie and carve one out.
Asparagus will be cut back when it yellows.
That's the lot for the time being. So much has happened over summer at the plot, it's been another great year of growing.
What were your growing highlights?
Take care,
Sophie
