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Still harvesting every day

Wow! That would be worth running out in the rain for! ;D

Fab looking toms and beans. My beans finished 2 weeks ago :'(

Marswiggle, it was here very sunny and 23 degrees ;D ;D
Shorts and singlet weather,

Smashing beans.  I am harvesting from a very late sowing and getting plenty now!  And the old boys on the plot said I was wasting my time!!

Wonderful crops Lady C.Absolutely superb.Thanks for showing them to us all.
        All The Best-Marky. :)

great we have a real indiaan summer here in holland,and see what it brings late and long harvest time,enjoy from it lady cosmos.By the way the cosmos seed you sended are now blooming great.Big walls of flowers.

Prophets of doom some of em EJ  :)   I went picking courgettes and toms yesterday, dodging rain, and came back with onions, little squash, runner beans are lovely (2nd wave), celeriac.  So there's still plenty of food and have not had to buy anything at all yet.  Making do without carrots

Lovely veggies LC  :)

Did anyone watch Rick Stein last night?  He was getting on my wick (I love his programme though) as he kept banging on about you can't this or that vegetable in England and they don't grow tomatoes like the French (big juicy beef ones).  I was shouting at the telly  ;D    To be fair to be him he probably meant commercially but the stuff he was using in France was coming from local markets, not supermarkets

My beans finished a couple of weeks ago as well, but next year I intend to make sure I sow successionally til as late as possible.  I didn't know I liked beans, til I grew them myself - turns out they don't taste so bad after all  ;D

That's true of most veg, esp carrots, sweetcorn and tomatoes  :)

Didn't know until a few weeks ago, but freshly picked sweetcorn is without compare.... ;D ;D

Oh, and tomatoes are the same...and...and....etc

So true of tomatoes!  I gave in yesterday and bought some cherry toms for chucking into a salad as mine were over a couple or so weeks ago, and I've always been ok with shop bought.  What was I thinking!? May have just been a disappointing few I suppose, but very watery - not juicy! - and hardly any actual flavour  :( 
Growing your own is all very well, but now it's got me starting to turn up my nose at shop bought, what am I supposed to do for stuff out of season?  (I know, I know - buy what's  in season!!  But it's hard when you've been a heedless consumer  ;D)

No, no, no.

Don't buy what's in season, GROW IT!!!!!   ;)

What a superb discovery this site is
Hello, you lot. This is my first entry so feelings of anonymous nervousness (like you probably had...)
I've been growing my own for several years now and it is great to see so many folks sharing the love of a good vegetable!! I have just this year taken on a lottie ready for the retirement years and am busy clearing the years of neglect. Great exercise, great fun.
In my own home plot it's been a pretty good year with potatoes, onions, peas, carrots, parsnips, mixed lettuce, spring onion, rocket, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, courgettes, runners and next year I finally get to crop the asparagus! 
Looking forward to sharing the next few years with you all....... BJ

Awww that so nice!! Welcome BJ, nice to meet you. Lottie  ;D

Hi. Lottie, thank for the welcome.
all I need to do now is figure out how all this complicated computer messaging works and I can converse with the modern world! (oh, yes, and grow a few vegetables). Wish me luck........ BJ

Hello there AR  As an ageing rocker meself methinks you'll fit in well on here as there are a lot of us about  ;D    Less axe and more pink cardi nowadays  ;)

Hello AR - pull up a seat and make yourself at home  :)

Welcome from one of the OAP's on the forum. You will enjoy yourself here. I don't know why I pay a TV licence never seem to get time to watch TV, too busy on here ;D Best wishes Lorna.