Last of the Summer Veg

I’m still catching up on posts, using photos taken earlier in the month before I was knocked out by a cold. The above borlotti beans, beetroot, Chantenay carrots and rainbow chard constituted our last substantial serving of vegetables of the season, and very good they were. I served them with pot-roast partridges stuffed with Lincolnshire [...]

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Icy Autumn

This week’s soggy weather does not inspire trips to the allotment. But on a sunny, crisp and chilly afternoon last Friday there were patches of frost around the site and the water tanks were frozen.

The plot is even starting to look rather abandoned.

Only the rainbow chard is still really thriving (and those little fennels, recently [...]

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Fennel Again

This rather daft, dreamy photo shows two small bulbs of fennel that seem to have planted themselves and avoided the fate of their parents, who went to seed some time ago: it’s thriving in the unexpectedly warm autumn weather.
The sunshine made the most of this autumnal scene at the allotment site.

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