Weird Year!

[Westi]

Today down at lottie I went into clearing mode - we've had a frost so clearing & mulching the dahlia beds so thought might just as well tidy up the raspberries & mulch them seeing I found a nice pile of well rotted manure.

After munching on at least 20 ripe raspberries I completed the job - & have the bad back to prove it. They were more tart than normal but very lush! Also found a pumpkin hidden in the black currant!

What has everyone else found that shouldn't be available this time of year? Someone on the news said they had strawberries.

Westi

[Motherwoman]

Nothing unusual to report unfortunately, I love raspberries but there were just a few shriveled ones. Brought home leeks and carrots though which were nice.

MW

[retropants]

i picked about 20 green tomatoes yesterday and 3 red ones along with 6 chilies! My Arum lily is flowering at home too :/

[PLUMPUDDING]

In the past two weeks I've picked the two last cucumbers and a couple of dozen sweet peppers from the greenhouse and 20 or so nice yellow tomatoes from outside. There are lots of the rotoco chillies still to pick and a few lemon drop Aji chillies. The Mara des bois strawberry is still flowering and a few strawberries have ripened since I brought the tub into the greenhouse, but they go mouldy quickly if you don't keep an eye on them. I'm feeding the Autumn Bliss raspberries to the hens as a treat as like you say they are a bit tart.

There are still quite a few shrubs and trees with leaves that I wish would lose them in one go as I'm fed up with sweeping them up.

[Primrose]

Well the weather is certainly upside down. I was walking past a front garden this morning which had a large pink rhododendron in full bloom. And I still have bedding geraniums in flower.

[Diane]

I have a little pink dianthus out...it's sheltering under a rhubarb leaf