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[Small pumpkin]

cos I'm a plonker and you are right. I was just testing really

Did I past ? I now know what I'm growing as my something never tried before

[Jungle Jane]

September in the Garden
Here's what the garden looks like today.

[Jungle Jane]

September Continued
A close up of what's growing today. Cucino cucumbers are doing well out in the raised bed. The bees love my pom pom dahlias they're next to some broccoli plants. In the third photo is leeks with carrots. The fourth photo is a couple of gourmet sweet peppers & lastly my Evesham special brussels sprouts that I sowed this time last year.

[Bigmallly]

The Plot's had a bit of Deanology as it needed tidying up:



The Munty House has come into its own:



The Butternut Squash bed is just starting to produce some fruit:

[Mark_Riga]

Hello, Bigmallly do you think that a fig tree would fruit if planned against the rush fencing, or wooden fencing in your picture? I was thinking of putting up something similar in front of a south facing hawthorn hedge. It would leave the hedge a bit in the shade but would survive.
I've got one in front of the house facing south and it fruits very well there but am concerned that its roots may have escaped and would like to move it somewhere else but have no other wall. I've got 5 well rooted cutting taken this spring to make the move.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Here! Big Man! There's been no "Deanology" this year, the place is riddled with weeds!

Personnel matters intervened this year, the loss of my Brother n "Marley Mo" the dog, n not yet had my two week summer hol's, but once this distribution which as been winged my way is over, it's "Getting It" in readiness for next year!

[Bigmallly]

Hello, Bigmallly do you think that a fig tree would fruit if planned against the rush fencing, or wooden fencing in your picture?

It would be a good idea to grow something against it Mark but unfortunately it's north facing plus I quite like the clean look.

[Bigmallly]

Here! Big Man! There's been no "Deanology" this year, the place is riddled with weeds!

Personnel matters intervened this year, the loss of my Brother n "Marley Mo" the dog, n not yet had my two week summer hol's, but once this distribution which as been winged my way is over, it's "Getting It" in readiness for next year!

I'm sure you will soon whip it back into shape Deano.

[veggiechicken]

There's been no "Deanology" this year, the place is riddled with weeds!

Your "riddled with weeds" doesn't mean the same as my "riddled with weeds"! You probably have about 10 weeds
Won't take you long to Deano it back into perfection

[Snadger]

Your "riddled with weeds" doesn't mean the same as my "riddled with weeds"! You probably have about 10 weeds
Won't take you long to Deano it back into perfection

It means green manure to me!

[Penellype]

October, and everything looking very bedraggled after a heavy shower with hail and thunder.

Near the hotbin



Ferline and Mountain Magic tomatoes, with caliente mustard green manure just germinating in front.

Near the apple tree



Still some apples (late this year for James Grieve), Sungold tomatoes, fennel (bolting), runner beans (about finished) and fuchsia berries.

From under the archway



More tomatoes (Mountain Magic and Sungold) and fuchsia berries on the right. tomatoes (Shirley, balconi yellow), cucumber (nearly dead) and osteospermum plants (just arrived) in the growhouse. The carrot cage is full of carrots and brokali and the blackcurrant bush is trying to burst out of its net.

The dark area behind the fruit cage



Wild strawberries and strawberry plants on the shelves. Cabbage Pixie just visible in the fruit cage. Broccoli, kohlrabi and calabrese under nets on the raised beds. The pot on the fence is the 3 french bean (Purple Teepee) plants I sowed indoors in March, which keep producing the odd flower and bean every time I think I will get rid of them!

The veg garden



Perpetual strawberries (Buddy), calabrese, spinach, chinese cabbage, pak choi, mizuna, namenia and spring cabbage under nets, leeks, late peas and beetroot in the background, tomatoes (Mountain Magic and Balconi red) in the quadgrow with carrot flyaway. More strawberries on the path and beans climbing the archway.

[Jungle Jane]

October in the Garden
Took these photos today of the plants enjoying a bit of sunshine in the garden. In the first photo there's some lemon grass in the bottom left corner (my cats been eating it!) & there's dahlias,broccoli & a few leeks behind those tomato pots on the patio. A pot of carrots is on top of my little shed,it did have peas in there but they've finished now,also on the shed is a french marigold & petunias. There's more carrots in a potato bag & in a pot of leeks on the patio. The last photo is taken behind the runner beans & brussels sprouts,its a little fruit corner of gooseberries,apple & grape with a few dahlias,peas & swede. In the raised bed is tomato,nasturtium,tiny cauliflower & cucumber plants (nearly finished). The pot has a tomato & two pepper plants in it,ones peppers turning orange

[Guest]

My patch doesn't seem to want to give up yet despite what I want to do







I have one lonely lil' flower on my yacon so wondering what the crop will end up like this year. My fartichokes are in full bloom and my goji are flowering well (but they have only flowered once before and I don't think it was as late as this, so again it will be interesting to see how they do)

[Guest]

A week early but seeing as it is clearing time didn't think it made much difference







Lastly my shed with lots of yummy goodies

[Bigmallly]

I hate this time of year when everything gets covered in leaves, mine looks a right pigs ear..................