With the season drawing to a close the main jobs this weekend have been clearing up around the plot. All the beans and most of the tomatoes have come to an end now. Still going strong are the mangetout, courgette, beetroot, kale, brussel sprouts and parsnips with cabbages and PSB to follow over the winter. Up at the shared plot there’s more beetroot and parsnips plus carrots, squash, brussels, savoy and winter cabbages. And there’s plenty of potatoes, onions and shallots in store.
Dwarf green kale.
Purple sprouting broccoli plants are around four foot high and looking healthy despite a whitefly invasion.
In the greenhouse are the last of the peppers with some potted-on strawberry runners, and some onions and shallots drying out.
And I’ve just been offered a half plot at the local village allotments so my expansion plans are now well underway and the drive to veg self-sufficiency almost complete!
Hope you’re all having a good weekend.
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October 8, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Sue
We are doing the same thing, squash were picked yesterday in case we get a sudden frost.
October 9, 2011 at 8:13 am
Damo
Yes there’s lots to clear up, still haven’t dug all the potatoes yet!
October 8, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Darren
Looking at that greenhouse, looks like it’s needs a good clear out lol
October 9, 2011 at 8:14 am
Damo
Yeh plenty to do, need to clean it all out and sterilise it ready for next year.
October 10, 2011 at 6:58 am
Mo
On my agenda for this week
Now the pigs have all gone and the meat all dealt with it’s time to tend the veggies again. We have a courgette in the polytunnel that thinks it’s a triffid! 
October 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Damo
Hi Mo, we’ve taken delivery of a half pig from our next door neighbour and are looking forward to some tasty meals over the next few months. The courgettes have gone a bit mad this year haven’t they!
October 10, 2011 at 11:09 am
Jo
Congratulations on the allotment plot, you’ll be starting the next gardening year with enough land to grow everything you want now. Sounds like you’ve still got plenty cropping, and plenty to come too.
October 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Damo
Thanks Jo we’ll have all the veggies we need next year!
October 10, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Flighty
Well done on the new half plot! All I’ve still got in the ground are a few beetroot. My digging and general tidying are thankfully well under way, and should be all done before it gets too cold and wet.
October 10, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Damo
Thanks Flighty you’re well ahead of me, there seems so much clearing up to do at this time of year!
October 10, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Jan
Just harvested a wonderful pumpkin from the seeds you sent me-rouge vif d’etampes(?). Sadly only one, but really heavy and a wonderful shape and colour-just like yours in the picture! Did you grow any this year?
October 11, 2011 at 6:06 am
Damo
Hi Jan, great to hear you got a pumpkin. They’re not the most prolific variety but are a lovely pumpkin when you do manage to get one. I grew some on from seed but sold them at our plant sale and just ended up with one solitary pumpkin from an unknown variety. Not a great year for me with pumpkin and squash, may have been the damp/cold summer as quite a few fruits rotted off the vine.
October 12, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Janet/Plantaliscious
Good heavens Damo, you will soon have the equivalent of a smallholding, just spread out a bit! Lovely healthy looking veg.
October 13, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Damo
Thanks Janet I’m looking forward to the challenge!
October 14, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Planters
Lovely, healthy-looking crops you’ve got there!
Wish I could get my greenhouse looking so tidy… Looks like a bomb’s hit it at the moment!
October 17, 2011 at 11:54 pm
maureen
Congrats on getting your plot, although how you fit it all in I’ll never figure out, but you do and do it so well too ! I have lot’s of ‘Pink giraffe’ tubers dug up ready to store for the winter, and still more to come up, so I’m sure I will be able to send you a few to get you started on multiplying some too. As soon as they dry out a bit I will send some.