December Getting Ready for winter

More tidying up ! The raspberries need pruning, the asparagus are coming on well and it will be another three years before we can begin to harvest them. So, now is the time to prune them right down to the ground.

Raspberries plants had really shot up tall.

Pruned down to the ground.

Raspberry plant really shot up tall this year. We had a fair amount of yellow raspberries.
I had out in about 5 canes of red, they did not have much crop at all. The yellow seem to have taken over.

Asparagus fern.

Weeding and tidying up time, beginning to look good and ready to put to sleep for the winter.

November

More tidying up ! The raspberries need pruning, the asparagus are coming on well and it will be another three years before we can begin to harvest them. So, now is the time to prune them right down to the ground.

Raspberries plants had really shot up tall.

Pruned down to the ground.

Raspberry plant really shot up tall this year. We had a fair amount of yellow raspberries.
I had out in about 5 canes of red, they did not have much crop at all. The yellow seem to have taken over.

Asparagus fern.

Weeding and tidying up time, beginning to look good and ready to put to sleep for the winter.

November

Time to plant winter onions.

Bought onion sets from the garden centre and Wilkos. White ones, red ones and the normal brown skin ones.

Decided to put them in the same bed as last year. This year we had a good crop of onions.

Six rows of onion

Onions planted

October - Tidy up time

October 

Harvest of Pumpkins continues.

I have decided to dig up the whole of the flower bed, that is so overgrown with weeds.

Dig out all the bulbs and then replant them again with lots of new bulbs.

Weed filled flower bed with all the bulbs hidden underneath the weeds now.

So best thing is to dig out the whole area.

And all dug out

Covered and ready for tidy planting of the bulbs.

The serpentine squash plants did so well and were full of flowers and small squash coming up to fruition. 

Only had couple of  big squash and just look how that hung.

So todays harvest is not bad, some squash, some big pumpkins and some greens.

September Harvest

We are still harvesting the fruits and vegetables of our labour. Potatoes are ready...

Potatoes

What a lot of potatoes

More squash

Sweet corn ...

... and some fruit 

Raspberries

Apples. Wow ...

Amazing pears on such a small dwarf pear tree ...

... and flowers, too

August Continues

Another 20kg pumpkin

Spinach so lush and fresh

Chard

Garlic so fresh and so organic, too

Amazing box of fresh fruit and vegetables

 

Back home i decided to make spinach, squash, quinoa and cheese burgers. So easy to make and delicious with salad.

August Harvest

It is the end of July and and we have some huge pumpkins.

Yes, that's right: one pumpkin weighing 20kg.

This year we have not got as many  pumpkins as last year. Maybe, because I put the pumpkins, courgettes and squash all in one bed. 

About 4 courgettes plants and not many courgettes at all. 

Pumpkin, Courgettes and Squash bed

Today's harvest:

Squash

Yellow and green beans

One lonely courgette

Sweet Corn coming along

Our dwarf pear tree has 4 pears on it. Wow !