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it's that time of year so much to do in the clear up of beds that need it but it was great with this wonderful september we are having, harvested 3 figs which was the best thing though, scrumptious  :)

cleaned the greenhouse and built a beautiful (if i say so myself ;)) container for my cranberry plant which has 2 berries :) and is sufferring in a 15cm pot. so i just need to line it and fill with ericaceous soil and maybe next year i will get enough berries to make cranberry jelly for Christmas.

Forgot to mention the picking of 1/2 doz cape gooseberries....that made my day. ;D

OH has me on a low residue diet, so she ate the fig!! Cropped some minipop corn, tomatoes and mangetout. Massacred more cabbage white caterpillars. Set the overwintering onions. Cropped some Aubergines from the big greenhouse.... deleafed some tomatoes in the big greenhouse and cropped the ripe ones ( and couldn't sneak any!)  :-X

Dug up some more Maris poopers, weeded and tidied squash and brassica beds.

I dug up my used sweet corn ,turned over the bed . Had a good go at getting the bed ready for onions and garlic and sat down to a cup of tea .The sun is shining (for a change) so its too nice to work.

planted garlic this afternoon

 :) filled the compost bins with kitchen waste and planted my Jap onions/ shades x

started a digging a bog garden habitat yesterday completed and planted it up today :D. downside for completing a simply project in two days :).... oh! my aching back, legs, arms, sides, etc :-\.

finished planting garlic and onion sets..planted the oriental veggies in the poly..always know autumns on it's way when I do that..pulled up and composted the melon plants..did quite well, 15 melons from 6 plants  ;D
picked calabrese, cabbage, parsnips, carrots, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers  :)

I usually do garlic end of October/November. Is it OK to plant it out now? What about shallots?

our guru, Eric, told us it's ok to plant onions and garlic if the ground is ready, he says it gived them a good start..shallots he says on shortest day, anyway, december  ;D
what's good enough for eric is good enough for us and we have someone to blame  ;D

Thanks Manics, I'll pop the garlic in tomorrow. Today -weeded onions nd leeks, lifted blighted toms and put to burn (removing healthy green toms first). Hung one unblighted plant to ripen. Watered in slug nematodes, watered toms in greenhouse and came home with a bag of tomatoes and courgettes.

Went to plot yesterday and picked beans and tomatoes and my only succesful romanesco cauli. Negotiated to share another 1/2 plot for fruit with another plottie who actually lives in the Parish, she doesn't really want it but I do and can't have one as I don't! The deal is that I work it and she can pick. As there is always more than I need this seems ok.Fingers crossed it comes up soon.

picked another bag of tomatoes, courgettes, squash ,beans,king edwards

was given more squash and apples by Betty and Martin ;D Hello Claire ;)

tided the greenhouses up a bit and weeded and dug/ shades x

Teenage daughter earned some money by helping me peg out my new bit of allotment next door to my present plot....a lot easier than doing it by myself, but I think it will need a bit of tweaking, it looks a bit thingy-eyed!

Nevermind, it has helped me see where the paths will go and where we need to dig, dig dig, lots of dandelions though..... :-\

borrowed an apple picking contraption from a friend and picked all the apples over the fence in next door's garden  :D It's to let and empty, but there was someone round last week so I thought we'd better get in sharpish

cleared the patio for when the builders come round on tuesday. That'll be fun

Collected10 bags of spent hops from York brewery and dumped them at the allotment. Picked a couple of sweetcorn which looked just about ok (fingers crossed) and one aubergine.
At home, did some strimming and generally tidied up while OH cut the hedge.
You can get a lot done when the electricity is off all day!

Picked some mushrooms today.  ;D ;D ;D

I picked my first crop ;D around 30 cherry bell radishes ;D