September garden update

October is knocking and the dark nights are rolling in. It is the time of year for warm fires, stews and hot soups. But still the garden is providing despite the early frost of a fortnight ago. Cabbages have had a good year, as have onions. I do wonder though if the onions will store well as they have grown so big. The tomatoes were late but are still ripening. We’re enjoying apple and raspberry crumble too.

Red cabbage

This is an old Irish variety called Gortnahort

Onions have done well

Raspberries

Tomatoes

Brambley cooking apples

We haven’t bought any eating apples for a good two months now and these red pixie apples are still to harvest.

Eating apple, Pixie

One of the great things about autumn is free seeds. I have been harvesting some from my flowers and already have lupins, delphiniums, campanula and some wild flowers including ox-eyed daisy, foxgloves and ragged robin germinating and growing.

Lupin seedlings

Campanula seedlings

Ox eyed daisy seedlings

Delphinium seedling

The chicks are growing too, and are spending most of their day in the greenhouse in a little enclosure that keeps the from digging young lettuce plants up!

Chicks