A new month and it seems like an entirely different country. Autumn now seems to be heading inexorably towards winter as posts in our weather blog show.
We made just a flying visit to the plot to harvest a few vegetables and make sure plants in the greenhouse had sufficient water. We didn’t even stop for coffee which must have been a first. There is still a bit of weeding that needs to be done but the pull to be outside wasn’t as strong this week.
We have moved rooted and potted strawberry runners into the garden greenhouse where they will overwinter and be used in spring to take the place of those plants that fail to make it. I hope that we will have as good a bounty of strawberries as we did last season. We even picked a few this week along with a gathering of alpine strawberries. I guess these are likely to have been the last.
The medlars that we gathered – all ten of them – seem to have bletted. They have darkened and are now soft to the touch so we just need to decide to taste them.
Harvested this week:
Vegetables:
Carrots – Yellowstone
Leeks – Autumn Giant 2
Fruit:
Alpine strawberry – Mignonette & Alexandria
Used from store and freezer
Apples – Peasgood Nonsuch
Blackberries
Broad Bean – Bunyards Ehibition
Potatoes – Nicola
Mangetout – Sugar Snap
Sweetcorn – Sweet Nugget
Conserves/Jam etc
Victoria plum conserve
Mixed fruit conserve
