End of season veg

Well, here we are mid-October, Were just back from our Holidays in Holland, been back a few days now so today it was time to gather in the remaining harvest, next week  I'll start prepping the garden for the winter clear all the old runner bean plants old tomato bags  De-weed the garden from the last three weeks growth etc, then.

Its that time of year to get decorating again, bedrooms this year, plus back into the workshop to start a  complete refurbishment of an old Elu Mitre chop saw you can follow this refurbishment over on my blog the workshop parts are ordered so in about ten days OK, in the meantime its back to the garden.

The last of the overripe tomatoes, if we had been away from any longer they would have been past use.  These will just about be enough to make a small bowl of tomato soup, six plants done really well this year, but not as good as other years.

The green toms were all that was leftover, not sure as yet on what ill use these for probable some diabetic sugar-free chutneys.


Golden delicious the last of this year's fruits these have done especially well this year, the best  for about four years, we've  had two other picking a few weeks ago  some went to a friend nearby and the other went to Holland to Louise's.

I always leave the windfalls to nature birds and bees you know that sort of thing, the apple is shown here will be sorted carefully into eaters and the others boiled down into apple sauce, and the remaining ones made into apple tarts etc, yummy.

last but not least the remaining stringy runner beans now long past eating, as shown here to dry and shrivel out over the following months, yep you guessed it next years planting beans hopefully.

This year's disasters, all the red and yellow pepper plants, all the basil plants, total disasters,  four of the twelve rosemary cuttings never made it, but the others seem to be doing fine, all four clematises are doing fine and so are the three honeysuckles doing well.

This only leaves my first attempt at growing  Celery still to be cut as when needed, what do you think?.

All the above was grown without any chemical assistant, no fertilizers pesticides etc and no water from the mains either, all water came from my water butts, any recipes that may come from the above will in time appear over on Simply Organic.

Enjoy.