Could well have our first frost here tonight.

I'll need to pick everything that is ready/nearly ready for picking and cover up what I think is worth covering.

I've picked most of the beans but a few left to pick, hopefully the raspberries will be ok.
I think the main crop that will need covering are a couple of courgette plants and some butternut squash that are still a bit pale.

Hopefully shutting the greenhouse doors will be enough for their contents but I'll pick all the tomatoes that are even slightly ripe as, if they get cold overnight, they tend to split, maybe caused by condensation on the skins.

Ear worms - those irritating songs you can't get out of your head once you've thought of them or heard them.

This week I've been feeling religious - or is it hungry? All because of some lettuce seeds.

Bed of Lettuce
Bed of Lettuce
Feed me  'til I want no more, want no more,
Feed me 'til I want no more.

Any garden songs that you want to annoy us with?

Seed Parade have a sale on this weekend - I've found their seeds to be good value (even at full price!) and consistently reliable to germinate.

https://www.seedparade.co.uk/index.php?f...shSaleId=5

Hello Folks
 
A couple of questions please……
 
 - When is the best time to transfer these into the ground?
 
 - Should I prune them at all?

   

It's still a bit early for this but last year I used sulphur candles in the greenhouse to try to eradicate any pests and diseases, the main one being tomato leaf mould. This has reappeared this year but a lot later in the year so not really a problem except it will likely strike again next year if I don't take any action - and makes saving my own seeds problematic as it can harbour in the seeds .

I wondered what, if anything others do?


Sulphur candles cn be quite expensive dan you just use flowers of sulphur do you think?

My phone isn't compatible, ffs.

So you have to have the most expensive phones??

I’m growing 3 spaghetti squash plants. They’re doing very well. Lots of squash growing on them some are going to be big. But I seem to have 2 different types growing.

   

The pale one is what I’ve grown before. Seeds all from same packet and brought earlier this year. I think from Mr F but I’ll have to check to be 100%. 

Any thoughts? Are the darker squash spaghetti?

Lamb's Lettuce - known by several other names including Corn Salad, Mache, Rapunzel, Valerianella locusta.
Its one of those seeds that I acquire because they sound interesting but never get around to sowing. 
Its time to sow it apparently and its quick to mature. 
Anyone grown it? Is it worth giving GH space to?

   

So this will be interesting, saw this yesterday, one of my apple trees which was harvested a few weeks ago has decided to produce some flowers.

Anyone else had this happen? I thought I'd just leave it to it as I'm not sure they'll get through winter.

As October approaches and the frantic summer season calms down, I begin to start tidying  up a bit.  I've spent  the  mor nng cutting down the old fruited rasperry canes, and weeding the fruit cage.  I noticed some raspberries growing up in the area of the blackcurrant, too near the net edges, even outside the cage.  I told myself, that's  a job for later, to dig up the errant canes and plant in the gaps.  The excuses for not doing then were myriad, but were probably only procrastination.   I also remembered I told myself the same thing last year, and probably the year before that.

My list of jobs that should be done, but somehow never get done could be endless, but here's a start.  You never know it might spur me to get up off my.....  and actually do some of them.

Tidy the upper shelves of the garden shed.
Throw away pots that haven't been used for several years. - this also applies to wardrobe and clothes
Scrub labels
Move perennials to a more suitable position in the flower bed.
Prune out dead bits from the apple trees before they bud next season.
Replace dying privet in hedge with cutting I took 2 years ago.

What jobs do you never get done?