The start of Autumn

[Mrs Ava]

Got to the plot today and it still looks great!  I am still harvesting peas, spinach, chard, carrots, spring onions (which seem to have gotten away with no white rot) lettuce, beetroots and runner beans and celeriac, parsnips, salsify, beetroot, cabbages, calabrase, swedes (altho they look a bit rough!) kales second cropping spuds and beans are still in the throws of growth!  I have fleeced my last sowing of carrots as I am hoping to harvest these for Christmas dindins.  Also put a cloche over a half row of lettuce to see if they will be okay as the weather starts to get colder.

Finally emptied my compost heap and spread it over the vacant patches, not that there are many.  

Old Jack was on the plot today and he planted a couple of rows of sweetpea seeds and a couple of rows of daff bulbs for cutting.  Planning to be a copy-cat and do the same on Friday, plus I have some sweetwilliam and stock seeds to put in.

Plot number 2 is now clean, well, except for a few runners which I am drying on the plant to put in my beans and pulses jar for soups, and a row of perpetual spinach, and I have been chucking the leaf mould that I made last year on the ground, tis all black and crumbly and great!  Never made that before but will do so again.  The bags took up no room stacked up behind the shed, and with my dry ground, chunky organic matter can only be a help!

So there you have it, still going strong at our plot.  Pleased with how good it all looks.

[Mrs Ava]

[Sarah-b]

Well done! Your plot sounds great. Ours has really had it now although still getting plenty of chard and the leeks are looking good.

As far as daffs are concerned, I have bought a huge sack and haven't managed to prepare where I want to put them. if I stuff them in somewhere else, when will I be lifting them next year?

Sarah.

[sandersj89]

As far as daffs are concerned, I have bought a huge sack and haven't managed to prepare where I want to put them. if I stuff them in somewhere else, when will I be lifting them next year?

Sarah.

July or August depending on variety and weather conditions.

Once they have finished flowering dead head them and give them a feed. Let the foliage die back, do not tie them up. Lift if required and shake as much soil from the bulbs as possible and then store until Sept/Oct in nets in a cool dry shed.

HTH

Jerry