After the glorious days of early summer, the weather has turned cooler, wetter and greyer.  This has meant that some of the fruiting crops have not ripened on as well as we might have liked.  Still, as earlier comments have made clear, things like tomatoes and aubergines have done much better than in the last two years and we are picking up very colourful harvests.

A colourful harvest

The onset of autumn means that our focus is starting to shift; so we are now concentrating on our winter (and especially Christmas) crops.  The parsnips are developing very nicely and the winter greens are all in.

Parsnips 27 Sep

In the past we have grown Minicole cabbages for summer harvesting, red cabbages for autumn harvesting and pickling (Kalibos at the moment) and experimented with winter cabbages.  This year we have grown Tundra for the first time based on a description that says it will stand through the harshest weather with little problem.  That is yet to be tested, but we are very pleased with the way that the plants are growing on.

Tundra 27 Sep 2013