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November
Near the hotbin
The tomatoes have all gone and all that's left is a few self sown nasturtiums and the remnants of the caliente mustard green manure, which has been decimated by slugs. The gorgeous Japanese maple is rapidly losing its leaves. You can just make out the light from the grow light garden through the door - it is currently full of lettuce seedlings.
Near the apple tree
The Sungold tomatoes have been replaced by a pot of calabrese and a trough of spring cabbage. There is also a bolting fennel plant that I am keeping for now for its foliage.
From under the archway
Photo taken straight into the sun, hence the strange colour. Carrots, brokali and swedes in the carrot cage. More carrots and lettuces in the fruit cage. Strawberries and osteospermums in the growhouse and the fuchsia berry still in full bloom. The blackcurrant has been moved from under the net but the gooseberry is still there.
The dark area behind the fruit cage
Empty raised beds waiting for the builder to mend next door's garage gutter. Wild strawberries on the shelf looking worse for wear but still producing fruit. Broccoli near the fence has grown very tall this year. The blackcurrant is between the broccoli and the hedge, and the strawberry towers are currently homeless.
The veg garden
Mizuna and namenia bottom left, with a bucket of caliente mustard next to it. Leeks in the salad planter in front of 2 buckets of very late peas (Terrain) just starting to produce pods. Spinach and calabrese under the nets and tomatoes (Mountain Magic) against the fence. There are also carrots in the quadgrow and beetroot in the green pot. The pots on the path are mostly strawberries, although there is a bucket of corn salad in amongst. I've left the runner bean foliage on the archway to provide some greenery as the clematis got wilt in the summer and had to be cut down.
I expect the whole place to look rather different by the end of the week, with a lot of the more tender plants likely to be killed by frosts.
Near the hotbin
The tomatoes have all gone and all that's left is a few self sown nasturtiums and the remnants of the caliente mustard green manure, which has been decimated by slugs. The gorgeous Japanese maple is rapidly losing its leaves. You can just make out the light from the grow light garden through the door - it is currently full of lettuce seedlings.
Near the apple tree
The Sungold tomatoes have been replaced by a pot of calabrese and a trough of spring cabbage. There is also a bolting fennel plant that I am keeping for now for its foliage.
From under the archway
Photo taken straight into the sun, hence the strange colour. Carrots, brokali and swedes in the carrot cage. More carrots and lettuces in the fruit cage. Strawberries and osteospermums in the growhouse and the fuchsia berry still in full bloom. The blackcurrant has been moved from under the net but the gooseberry is still there.
The dark area behind the fruit cage
Empty raised beds waiting for the builder to mend next door's garage gutter. Wild strawberries on the shelf looking worse for wear but still producing fruit. Broccoli near the fence has grown very tall this year. The blackcurrant is between the broccoli and the hedge, and the strawberry towers are currently homeless.
The veg garden
Mizuna and namenia bottom left, with a bucket of caliente mustard next to it. Leeks in the salad planter in front of 2 buckets of very late peas (Terrain) just starting to produce pods. Spinach and calabrese under the nets and tomatoes (Mountain Magic) against the fence. There are also carrots in the quadgrow and beetroot in the green pot. The pots on the path are mostly strawberries, although there is a bucket of corn salad in amongst. I've left the runner bean foliage on the archway to provide some greenery as the clematis got wilt in the summer and had to be cut down.
I expect the whole place to look rather different by the end of the week, with a lot of the more tender plants likely to be killed by frosts.
........Here are my final photos of 2016.
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