The last of the warm summer sun, with a hint of Autumn in the air, is the perfect evening to be sitting outside with a glass of wine contemplating the world!
On our fields the last of the summer successional sowing is done, most of the year’s crops are in their final positions and everything is fruiting producing or growing on strongly. Now all we have left to do is harvest, harvest and harvest!
Cucumbers 3 times a week, tomatoes and courgettes twice a week, peas and beans every other day! Peppers fill the basket every Friday, cauliflower, cabbages, turnips beetroot, fennel and lettuces as they are ready, onions, potatoes and garlic ( some cleaned and stored for cropshares later in the year).
While harvesting is going full pelt we will be continuing to sow and transplant the overwintering crops such as lettuce, spinach, chard, mustard and oriental greens for growing in the polytunnel. Late spring cabbages and cauliflowers for transplanting in February.
October brings the annual challenge of swapping the abundant but fading summer crops with new but not ready to harvest winter crops at the optimum time. Too soon and you lose valuable harvests, too late and you won’t have harvestable plants until much later in the winter. Decisions, decisions who would be a grower!
