Quite sad to be honest

[Lotsaveg]

Emptied the greenhouse today and now have a big pan of green tomatoes bubbling away on the stove in vinegar, brown sugar, chopped onions and apple. Green tomato chutney for cold winter nights!

Picked the last courgette and cleared the bed of plants and weeds.

Last of the runners in the freezer and all the corn in the rubbish bin!

Cabbages still ticking over and leeks still look good.

Also started splitting the logs for the wood burner and piling them up outside the back door.

Only seems like yesterday I was busy planting seeds and looked forward to a season of growing.

[chris]

I don't know- autumn is probably my favourite season the leaves are turning here and dropping.

[singleseeder]

I do know what you mean, Lotsaveg. This is the end of my first season on this plot and haven't given it the amount of time I should have due to other commitments, so the plot is looking a bit sad now.

Not long been back from picking and I thnk that it is all coming to an end now. One or two courgettes left for another day or two; one or two more pickings of runners, mange touts, frenchies; last of the beetroot and a few more gherkins. I have to clear the last of the tomatoes out of the green house and that will be it.

Oddly, I do like digging and the resulting clean, bare earth........... until next year when I can start sowing all of those 50p seeds I couldn't resist.

[zazen999]

I've still got loads to go in, and started sowing again a week ago. Claytonia, and lambs lettuce just sown [and just up] - and I put in my winter lettuces at the plot; plus leeks of course. And I had a stash of onion seedlings that was sat there for ages which will be going in under cover for the winter. And my toms and peppers will be in the greenhouse for a while yet...my cukes are looking ropey so they need to come out soon. But I've still got a few weeks worth of fruit even on those. I leave the bootroot in the ground for the winter, and I have root parsley and parsnips of course sat there waiting.

Nothing to be sad about - onions garlics and shallots to go in over the next few weeks; plus broad beans sown and put under cover; and green manures where the soil will not be used until the spring....still plenty to be going on with. And that's not including the chard [about 30 seedlings waiting to go in] or the kale [which has got a little caterpillared but soon perks up once the cold weather comes]....

And soon enough [12 weeks ish] it will be time to sow next year's onions.

[solway cropper]

I just put in 50 Radar onion sets for overwintering and have kale and chinese cabbage waiting for a vacant spot. Trouble is the plot is still full of veggies: leeks, turnips, swedes, cabbage, chard, beetroot, carrots, parsnips, lettuce......and the greenhouse is still in full production. And now I have to start raking up leaves for the leaf mould cage. It never stops.

[singleseeder]

I do have Senshu (sp) onions to go in for the first time this year, garlic for the first time and green manure so there is still a little work to be done after the lovely bare earth stage. Not sure I want to do too much because I have my name down to move up to a full plot rather than a half, so I could move; then again it could be another year, or two or..............

[zazen999]

You can dig up garlic and onions and transplant. And lettuces. And broad beans if you need to.

[Florence Fennel]

I've started tidying away the stuff that's finished, but I've also got garlic to go in, onion sets in modules (I know, I said I wasn't growing onions ever again, but I changed my mind), cauliflowers, cabbages and kale getting bigger and stronger to resist the slugs and I'm sowing some carrots to keep under fleece. Don't be sad Lotsaveg, I'm sure you'll find loads to do yet.

[stella]

it always surprises me how much can be kept going over the colder months. I used to be sad when the summer ended and it was all 'over' but now I have a late crop of carrots in, winter cabbage, raddish, corn salad, watercress,parsnips so the gap is smaller until we start again next year

[perkin]

We're definitely feeling the change of seasons here. Usually identified by the fact that in the early morning I'll go into the greenhouse and close the door to get a bit of warmth rather than dashing in and out of it before I melt.

[Dead Dogs]

I still have toms ripening in the GH, also have a late sowing of radishs and carrots coming up. In the poly there are more toms and the courgette is still producing. Also in the poly are kale and PSB, brussels, cabbage, parsnips and beetroot. I have sown carrots and Pak Choi. The France beans need to come out and winter lettice to go in.
Outside bedds have kale and PSB, brussels, cabbage, parsnips and Leeks to be tendered. Been experimenting to see how well thing grow in the poly compared with outside. (mmm reminder to self, post some pics.) Also, now the spuds are out I have that bed to prepare for the over wintered Garlic, Onions, Broard Beans (a first for me) and hardy Peas (another experiment).