Kitchen Garden Forum

Pa Snip wrote:
In one Clive, well done. Didn't take the trip but did take a vid clip of it passing through our area

In a display cabinet on the wall above where I sit at this pc is 6231 and 46232...also from the same range No. 7, 6917, 80054 and 7013.....

I missed noticing that Scots Guardsman was our way on the other week...I would have liked to see that as last time was back in 1970s at Dinting.

Tonight listening to the "radio" from the Ross Revenge....

All parts of my eclectic list of hobbies in which I sometimes distantly dabble.

Sometimes I do gardening too.

Today, picked some Newton Wonder, bolted a fence panel back up and spent some while moving and stacking logs.

Clive.

Excellent, an extra hour to do more jobs...

Long time since I've said this, Morning OH

You are always up with the lark anyway.
Me, I'm more up for a lark


UPDATE @ 07:08

Its a really naff morning here. The mist has rolled in and visibility is down to a poor 500yards
Damp mist, yuck.

Hours to wait before Wickes shop opens and I can buy the wood for more raised beds

It's good to be back in England but it's certainly well into autumn now. Much shorter daylight hours and knee deep in leaves. My old cat Blossom has died suddenly while I've been away which was very sad but a good way to go.

My next challenge is to tackle the apple and pear mountain and a surplus of eggs so juicing and baking on the list. I'm going to bottle the white currant wine today too -should get eight bottles.

And another surprise is over a hundred walnuts for drying. The most it has produced before is 12.

It has been a treat wearing bits of light weight clothes and sandals for three weeks. The wildlife has been wonderful from the monitor lizard parade down the motorway to a sunbird feeding it's young in a woven nest it had built on a clothes line in a barber's shop.

Welcome back to blighty Plum.

The lightweight clothes and sandals now relegated to back of cupboard until either next trip or next summer,
maybe spring if you are lucky.

Sorry about your cat

Sorry to read about, Blossom, Plumpudding.....bet she had the most wonderful life with you.

Anticyclonic gloom here yesterday, today and more forecast tomorrow - and not a breath of wind. But it's dry and the fuchsias, pelargoniums and bacopa are as good as they have been all summer, not bad for almost November!

16 degrees on lottie today! Twas lovely!

Cut back the last of the apricot raspberries then thought I may as well clear the whole of this back corner so tackled the Jerusalem Artichokes & the hedge row along the back. Farmer has done his side and must have had a slighter longer cutter on as with a bit of very un-health & safety balancing I managed to reach all the branches. Only about 1/3rd done & a mega pile of cuttings, already got one pile full of raspberry & blackberry canes to burn that I can't add to (unless I burn the fence down), & haven't started on the fruit trees yet, but am going to have plenty of wood ash.

Harvested courgettes, chillies, carrots, Pak Choi & a bag of artichokes. Dahlias, Roses, and marigolds still in full flower, but time must be running out & a frost due at some point soon.

Westi

Damp and misty here, into the rugby season routine now.
Home game yesterday 51 - 21 to us, Tuanton got nearly all their points in the last quarter of the game.
So up, breakfast, club, sort bar, run bar, empty bar, home.
Sunday up, walk to allotment shop with dog, help out, walk long way home to throw ball, do allotment stuff.
Won five more barrows of combined woodchip n leaf mould, cleared bindweed from 6' × 18' area, membrane under totally rotted mulch, so much scraping and shovelling.
Gifted a shed from a vacated plot to a tenant in need of one and did some horse trading with plots to get one tenants holding into one place and still end up with a vacant plot to let.

Now cooking squash, cabbage, carrots, potatoes and parsnips, all from the plot, with beef and Yorkshire puddings. Dog is looking hopeful.

Rugby club fireworks next weekend.

Now cooking squash, cabbage, carrots, potatoes and parsnips, all from the plot with beef.

Swap runner beans (!!) for parsnips and pork for beef and you have our dinner. The apples are with blackberries today.

Has everybody got the start of what looks like a spectacular show of Autumn colour? I was going to take a photograph of our valley but that needs a hint of sunshine. Main harvest today was more leaves into the leaf mould builders' bags. Can't put it off any longer, out to take the potatoes out of my store cupboard and try and fit in the last of the apples and pears picked yesterday.

Yes, Geoff, the autumn colours are absolutely beautiful this year. We look at a hillside wood across the valley and when the sun is setting, the entire area glows. And with the lack of wind at the moment, the leaves are hanging on longer than usual. Looking forward to a bit of sunshine!

The sun came out at last - hope they continue to colour rather than drop off as it gets colder.

The third beautiful autumn day to day and 0 degrees this morning, just cold enough to coat the car with frost, kill off the nasturtiums and produce a thin icy skin on the bird bath. Hopefully, we shall get some hard frosts this winter to get rid of the bugs including whiteflies!

Always the optimist Monika!

Perhaps we should give more respect to whitefly as they do seem to do well even at low temperatures, but even those that don't make it still need washing off thoroughly. Funny there was a raw milk story on BBC news today - all I thought off was where is there a farm near me so I can tackle these little blighters!

Westi

06:15

Tis a frosty morn. White cars job. Glad I'm stuck in until a delivery arrives.
This morning I have finally got round to putting this years plot pictures into a folder.

I have posted very little in the way of plot pictures this year

Another urgent job for today is to try and get a poppy wreath delivered in time.
Wasn't expecting to be here to lay one at the Chatham Naval Memorial this year so forgot to order.