There seems to be little doubt now that autumn has finally arrived. September was warmer than average for September and with some decent sunny days we were spoilt a little bit. October has certainly brought with it some much cooler and damper weather.
Back on the 11 September I planted out some cut and come again lettuce plants called Catalogne in our raised salad bed at home.
For one reason or another I haven't given them much of a thought. There's been enough rain for me to forget about watering plants outside so it had been a while since I'd checked out how they were doing. I had a look this week and got a pleasant surprise.
A forest of leaves ready for picking and as far as I can tell no damage from slugs and snails. Hopefully these leaves should keep us supplied for some time providing we don't get any frosty nights.
We decided on a trip to the plot even though it was cold and damp. I carried on with a Somerset theme and harvested a few more apples, well 15kg or another 33.5 lbs.
Our main problem is storage as we haven't got any. I think they'll have to go on the floor in our summerhouse although we are rapidly running out of floor space in there. It's a nice problem to have though. 
After harvesting this little lot we'd got a little bit wet in the spells of drizzly rain and decided to head for home to warm up and dry out.
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It's cooled off a bit here, too, at least for the moment. The gray sky is so welcome. What are those round, squat, greenish-white things in your last photo? Squash of some sort? Perfect size of one or two.
ReplyDeleteI bet your cooled off a bit is different to our cooled off a bit. You guessed correctly that those round, squat, greenish-white things in my last photo are indeed squashes. In the UK they go under the name of Crown Prince. With a bit of luck they will keep through winter and into next spring. They're great for pumpkin pie. I can almost taste the first pie of winter already!
DeleteYeah ... your high is my low. Love WU, translates the degrees automatically for me. Laugh. But about those 'Crown Prince', I looked them up on Google and all references were to the UK. It isn't even marketed here. How strange.
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