Frost!

     Did a short visit to the UK and what do I come back too? FROST! First serious frost of the year and that has finished off the sweet peppers and any life left in the squash and pumpkins. Last of the water melons picked and only one lost to, believe it or not, being over ripe! Carrots, butternut squash, sweet peppers, potatoes (yes, I have some second earlies still in the ground!), haricot buerre (which I have been very pleased with), cabbage, poly tunnel chili's, the last courgette and poly tunnel tomatoes (all but done now) all harvested over the last two weeks. 

     With the onset of frost the last of the sweet peppers and haricot buerre have been picked. The total weight of haricot beans, vert and buerre, has been 19.74 kgs, of which 5.53 kgs have been haricot buerre.

     Of course grass mowing continues and hopefully with the frosts it will now slow down. Chickens are still not laying well most likely down to the short days of day light and moulting. Over the the last two weeks an average of 0.7 eggs laid daily. Very poor!

Waltham butternut squash 

Haricot buerre and mixed sweet peppers