Topic: whats left?

[Mrs Ava]

Autumn is well and truly here, infact, rumour has it some places have had frosts, so what do you still have growing on your plot?  
I still have masses of runners - ridiculous amounts, good job they freeze quite well!  Also a few carrots still in the ground but that is it - altho these are in the garden as I only took on my lottie a month or so ago.
So what are you still enjoying?

[thomasb]

Emma,
I have carrots, parsnips and swedes still in the ground. Other than that my 'winter' crops consists of sprouts and white and purple sprouting broccoli  (given to me by a kind women 2 lotties down from me).  Hopefully, the first of the sprouts will be ready in 2-3 weeks time. Thomas

[Mrs Ava]

cool!  I was curious what grows through the winter months......you kinda think as the flower garden almost vanishes over winter that nothing really grows, but I am finding out that there is quite a lot that happily trundles along through the cold weather.  ;D

[jethro]

Hi Emma, i've got carrots, swedes and cabbages, but the best thing that is still growing is dandelions ??? they have started to flower yet again >:(, could be useful for the wine making i suppose. I also have at the last count 300 toms in the greenhouses which are just starting to ripen ;D (oh my god egg and tomato sarnies for the next 12 months). I will be putting in my spring cabbages ( 70 in total ) next, that's after the building work (see windturbines string) also japanese onions ( 80 in total) so after all this i'll be off sick till next year, well thats after covering the lottie with manure 2 ton of it, after that i WILL be sick :P :-[ :-X.

[Hyacinth]

Hope to be away this winter,so only got perpetual spinach, chard, Ina's witlof (lots of Ina's witlof!), white sprouting broccoli & some hedges of parsley. With garlic and shallots to go in. Don't grow maincrop carrots, so all the Nantes have been lifted & frozen. Got a swapsy deal with my neighbour so he grows leeks and parsnips for us both. Last year planted 75 red onions & 75 white ones in autumn - and had a total failure so, apart from the shallots I'm not bothering this year. The Red Baron spring sown onions were brill. and are storing well & I'll be doing the same next year.18 big bags of manure have been spread, so it's all looking good.- Lishka

[tim]

-  was really mad this am - checked for my painstaking reply last night and it wasn't there.

Took some time to figure that it was on  Auntie's board, in reply to a similar prompt by YR.

Pity we can't magic all the replies together - Tim

[Hyacinth]

You could copy-and-paste, Tim - or you could get that swish camera of yours out and send in a photo??

Just a thought...or two...cheers! Lishka