As the weather has been a bit brighter over the last couple of days, I have been able to catch up on tidying up the garden ready for the autumn.  As the sun broke through I took a few snapshots.  The vegetable beds are looking good and over the next couple of months, these will come into their own as we have autumn/winter crops growing here.  The brassicas are doing nicely, although the purple sprouting broccoli has rather swamped the Minicole cabbages.

Brassica Bed Aug 2011

The Kalibos cabbages, which were well set before the purple sprouting broccoli was planted out are doing much better.

Kalibos cabbage

The mesh has proved invaluable over the last couple of years in keeping out cabbage whites, but the recent wet weather has brought the slugs and snails out again, so there is some damage from them, but the plants are robust enough to cope with that now.

Lynn’s parsnip bed is looking good, so we should be fine for Christmas Dinner.  In addition the leeks are as good as we’ve had for a couple of years and a late sowing of Little Gems is looking promising for autumn salads.

Parsnips

Leeks and late lettuce

On the floral front, the front garden is looking better and the yellow/white and blue colour scheme is starting to develop although the blue provided by primulas and rosemary is not so clear at this time of year.