Autumn Leaves

The plot is looking more colourful as autumn approaches and the most eye-catching change since my last visit was the leveller bush (yet to produce any fruit, after two seasons), now a vivid red. Here’s a more detailed view. The borlotti beans, still growing, are producing just a handful of beautiful pink and green pods [...]

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Pear Jam

While searching for a recipe for pear jam, Google sent me to the website for the rock group Pearl Jam, so I’m getting my own back here (with apologies to any fans of the band who have no interest in photos of my latest pot of preserves). There were lots of recipes, mostly for those [...]

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Carrots

We had the first Chantenay red-cored carrots. They seemed to be the slowest-growing carrots ever and mysteriously didn’t have red cores, but were delicious. Another one, carrots ready for the pot.

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Love-in-a-Mist

Much of the plot still looks green as these dried Love-in-a-mist hint at autumn colours to come. Recent sunshine has boosted the growth of the rainbow chard. I’m not sure what’s causing those holes in the leaves. Little snails? I picked two round courgettes and half a normal one (a small snail was munching its [...]

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Evening Primrose in the Morning

It was a beautiful morning today and what has become the evening primrose patch is looking lovely amidst the generally overgrown top end of the plot. I wasn’t sure if these were evening primrose – they seemed too short and stubby – until I read this text and discovered that they are biennial plants, forming [...]

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Fennel Flowers

The fennel has bolted, before forming bulbs. (We ate some anyway.) There are also a few other veggie flowers at the plot. A radish, left to go to seed. Very late (perhaps too late) borlotti beans – not enough sun for these, I think. The artichokes are nicely established, though haven’t produced any flower heads [...]

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