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.
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.
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
Your harvest looks great! We had our first fire today… the season is moving on, leek-potato soup tonight!
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Winter’s coming Eliza!!
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Yep, and then spring! ;-D
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At each end of summer, spring and autumn seem to be equally busy. Your autumn garden looks beautiful.
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Thank you:)
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What a harvest! Those cabbages look amazing.
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It’s been a good year for cabbage, though there is a bit of slug and caterpillar damage. I never seem to grow enough though – and later planting never do as well.
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One is impressed as always with your abilities. Of course what I’m taking from this – there’s Pixie apples?! How delightful! xx
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It’s a lovely name isn’t it – and small and red just as you’d expect!
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Our tomaotoes have only just started to ripen, some going in a chicken casserole today!
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Sounds good. Glad mine aren’t the only late ones!
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What a wonderful harvest post! Thank you for sharing.
We are roasting and preserving tomatoes and basil in olive oil, picking peppers and a few small zucchini (they didn’t do well this year) and enjoying the herbs and greens.
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Your roasted tomatoes sound yummy. Yes zucchinis haven’t done well last couple of years for us. I don’t think they like our cool wet summers!
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Harvest looking good Murtaghs Meadow. The cabbages and onions especially catching my eye. Are you a Kimchi maker? 🙂
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No, but my husband does do sauerkraut!
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Bet those chickens wish they had half a chance at getting into your garden for a feast! 😉
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You should see their reaction when I throw in a handful of weeks to them! Anyway
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Can’t believe how the chicks have grown. Are the Pixie Apples just in Ireland? Marvellous, healthy produce.
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No i am pretty sure you will get them in the UK too
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