We've had a few days of heavy rain showers though the temperatures have been pretty good over the first week of October. Wow, October already?! Time's flying this season, Autumn is well and truly here.
What great harvest of sweetcorn this year. Last year was pretty poor, I had some but it wasn't great with too many stunted plants. In my last few posts I have mentioned picking corn cobs and this week I've picked the last of them, I've had loads of lovely corn. While I eat a few cobs fresh, I mainly tend to boil them up then freeze the corn, it lasts longer and we use it in all sorts of things.
The Sweet Candle F1 carrots looked pretty good when I pulled a couple last month so, I thought it best to pull the lot this week. I only barred in three rows, around 21 carrots in all. Believe me, that's plenty! The carrots are massive and taste delicious. I had a few attacked by slugs and a couple that had forked but, even these were edible with a bit of judicious trimming as they are so large. Again, I keep some fresh but the majority are peeled and blanched in boiling water and then are frozen for use throughout the coming months.
It's quite hard to see just how big these carrots are in the picture but you can get some idea by looking at the width of the sink to the left and a large cake tin and toaster to the top of the photo. Anyway, these were all prepared and bagged up in the freezer, plenty for the Autumn and Winter months. Job done for another season
Into the greenhouse now and it's time to clear out the tomatoes. It's been a bit of a mixed year for toms'; I tried Shirley F1 first of all, they were expensive and there were only a dozen or so seeds in the packet. Worst of all, only four plants germinated where I normally get good results in a heated propagator. I actually sowed a second pot of my usual Alicante to make up for the losses and, to be honest, there wasn't that much difference when the plants finally started producing. There's no way I'm shelling out for Shirley again, I just can't see that they are worth it. (Pic - tomato plants 'gone over' in the greenhouse, time to clear them).
That's it for this post. See you soon.
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