It was suggested we would have another heat wave but if it happened we didn’t quite get it here. We did have very sunny and hot days all the same for the last couple of weeks of August and then almost bang on 1st September it turned into winter. Really heavy rain and really strong winds have been going all week. Because it is still quite warm, even though the days are now noticeably shorter, a lot of growth is taking place, it has to as there are not many days left.
We have been picking tomatoes in the garden, just started to turn red and will continue to do so until I have to bring the last lot indoors near the end of the month. Staying with red things, our chillies have done much better this year. We have not had any pests or bugs since I sprayed them months ago with cheap pest spray, just a bit and just once seemed to sort it all out. We don’t have millions of chillies but the plants on the whole look healthy. Also red are apples. With all the wind this week I’m not sure if we will be picking many more but so far we have picked over 1kg and large red apples.
We pulled carrots from the plot and had a surprise when they came out as short stubby ones and not long carrot shape ones. I had forgot I had sown that particular variety, it was the only seed I had at the time.
Sweetcorn in the garden has all been picked. We maybe left it a bit late as we noticed something had been eating some of the corns. In the end we picked them all and cut off all the good corn and put in the freezer giving us a nice bag of sweetcorn for whenever we need it. Pleased with it and we might grow more again next year in the garden, not on the plot due to mice and rats.
Will celery join the sweetcorn as a happy surprise? It was sown just on a whim thinking it must be hard to grow but if we had the seed going spare then why not give it ago. We are now picking celery sticks and will probably have trouble getting through it all. They are small sticks of celery but they are celery all the same, look like and taste like celery. For a crop that I have done minimal work with, they have looked after themselves and produced well.
On the plot we planted out turnip plants which we forgot to water while it was super sunny but I hope I got to them just in time. We have had lots of rain since then so when I go to the plot O hope there will be lots of green turnip leaves. Also planted out are curly kale and cabbage. Let’s see how everything has coped with the wind and the weather up on the plot on my next visit, when it stops being so windy and rainy.
