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Thought some of you might like to have a look at what I have been up to this month;

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Blogspot/Sept-2013%20blog/September%20blog.htm

Your garden and allotments are always a treat to look at 
What a lucky lady to be taking on one of your plots! Good luck with the downsizing 

Looking good Tee Gee.

Brilliant, you've got so much in there. I was intrigued by your calabrese. They look like young plants- will they overwinter?

QuoteI was intrigued by your calabrese. They look like young plants- will they overwinter?

I put them in the first week in August and this is how they looked this morning;





No they won't survive the winter!

I only grow varieties that I can sow in succession and usually manage to get three crops in in a growing season.

As you all know when a sowing matures they all come together so in sow batches of around a dozen at about one month intervals and I can extend my season.

The third sowing is usually done a bit tongue in cheek as sometimes the early frosts can come a bit early and take them out!

I have been pretty lucky over the years and have only lost out once, and that was only partially, as I was harvesting some before the frost took the remainder out!

I find it is worth the risk!

Fingers crossed that I will get a full crop this year again, the forecast for October seems promising so I think I might be lucky this year again.

Glad you all liked a look around my spot/s....Tg

Excellent as always XX Jeannine

Very much enjoyed your pics TG  You are so neat and tidy, I think my plot would give you a heart attack.  Your calabrese looks good which variety are they.

I planted out some Calabrese in September last yeat was told it would crop in November, it actually cropped the following May and three of the plants have been producing ever since and are still at it.   It did have a fleece and curtain netting on all winter.   Otherwise it would not have survived the deer.    And it was a very hard winter.  Though maybe cold is better than damp and windy.   I thought it was Parthenon  but I am told by the plant supplier that it was not.  This year he grew a different variety which is supposed to be frost hardy.   Aquiles F1 is supposed to overwinter and crop in May.  They were planted out early September.   I have 12 so we shall see.