Kitchen Garden Forum

Morning Clive, i too have noticed the Greenfinches round this way have been getting larger, as well.

It's dark and dismal
Wind and rain
Looks like autumn's back again

The only good thing about today is the shed roof I mended in the heat wave isn't leaking (yet?).

Cloudy, odd bit of sunshine, plus some drizzle, saw a short wide rainbow, well column really, this evening.

We spent all yesterday morning digging over a large bed (about 24' x 24') where the potatoes grew this year and found almost a bucketful of potatoes which had got away! Amazing, how they always do. No doubt, there will still be a few volunteers coming up next year.

And today I spread 15 large wheelbarrows of lovely, gooey cow manure onto the same area, manna for the worms.

By the end of this, wheelbarrow, fork and I were covered in manure - great fun cleaning it all off.

Took advantage of the Indian Summer to go to south Wales for a few days - Gower Peninsula. Super spot, wonderful views at Rossili Bay, with lots of seals on the rocks Stayed at Mumbles at Tides Reach B & B, which I can heartily recommend - but book a back room if you don't like traffic! John N.

Does the monsoon usually come just after the Indian summer?

Incredible, isn't it - 25 degrees last weekend, 8 degrees maximum today!

and the hailstones.

It is still going down here - 21 degrees on lottie today! We have had a little dip during the week but as soon as the sun came out it was warm
again.

Unsurprisingly the papers are all doom & gloom predicting the worst snow
& cold for years down here, but it is only the last two years that it has snowed around here, previous to that was about 8 years ago.

Westi

Rained all day today then thoroughly depressed by watching the Countryfile forecast which suggested our very own deluge until Wednesday.