Late Season Harvests

Thanks to an unseasonably warm week, we're still finding ourselves with salad leaves to pick. I'm sure the plants will either irrevocably bolt, or die in a frost, before too much longer, but for now, there are still salads to be enjoyed.

We've also managed to collect about 8kg of blackberries, which is better than we've done for the last couple of years. All into the freezer for now (which is starting to bulge at the seams), along with apple purée that we've been making in batches. The courgettes are still going, but the peas have pretty much come to an end, and the runner beans have slowed. I think we'll find that the summer harvests are over very soon. However, that just means we can start looking forward to the leeks, celeriac, turnips, and winter leaves.

The Summer Gold onions and Germidour garlic that we planted a fortnight ago are now sprouting (about half, anyway), and the spring onions have begun to germinate. There's no sign of the elephant garlic, yet, but that's buried twice as deep, so it'll take longer to emerge.

Less excitingly, I repainted the rest of the inside window frames (a job started a month ago), and discovered that the windows in the garage and workshop need some attention. I think they'll muddle through the winter, but next spring I think I should re-mortar them, and probably replace some of the putty/mastic.