What with the weather and various other commitments last week, we only managed one visit to the allotment.
Things are winding down but we have plenty of tidying up to do. There's no big rush though. It's going to be a case of doing bits and pieces when we can.
One big job that Martyn tackled was to cut back our apple Hedge. I'm afraid with this hedge we don't go in for any 'scientific' pruning methods. It's just a case of out with the ladders and hedge cutter. The hedge still manages to produce lots of fruit.
Whilst, Martyn was busy wielding the hedge trimmer, I cleared the beds where there were remaining, dead courgette plants.
The outdoor tomatoes had come to the end of their useful life and so were also cleared. After strong winds had blown across the plot many of the remaining tomatoes littered the soil, however I managed to collect a few tomatoes to bring home.
I think this is probably the latest outdoor tomato harvest that we have achieved, at least as far back as I can remember.
We harvested a few more things too before heading home.
I think the small picking of cranberries will probably be the last of the year. All this year's fruit came from just one of our two plants. I wonder whether the other plant will make an effort next year?
After a slight frost earlier in the week, I hadn't expected the dahlias to survive. Some leaves had been blackened but there were still fresh flowers to pick. I also gathered some more statice to add to the bunches drying in a spare bedroom.
We needed to replenish our carrot stock and so we dug another forkful. This years carrots have been great so far. As we have still only used carrots from one of the varieties sown, we don't yet have any idea of how the other varieties have fared.
Before heading home I picked a few leaves from the giant spinach..
This was used in a coconut and squash curry.
To end, for those of you who enjoy watching videos, I've added a video of last week's activities on the plot.
To end, for those of you who enjoy watching videos, I've added a video of last week's activities on the plot.
Our complete monthly harvests are listed here.
This week I am linking to harvest Monday hosted on
Dave's blog Our Happy Acres
