Ok where did the time go?

   Well I do not know! Time has flown once more and before I knew it I should have already written my blog by now. Now being fully fit I have been taking advantage of the warm and dry weather to get jobs done that should have been done in the September/October time frame. There is now only about one third of one bed left to fork/weed so I am feeling pretty pleased with myself. I have even managed to rake up the leaves under the old apple trees and cherry tree while they were still dry. Problem is the weather is about to break and as I write this outside it is windy with a drizzle in the air being driven by the wind. Day inside methinks!
   I have been harvesting cauliflowers in the outside garden. They are bigger and better than those in the poly tunnel would you believe. I mean they are as big as ones you would buy in the local supermarket. I am very pleased with them. The winter cabbages are starting to hearten up and there are going to be some giant ones! With the warm weather this autumn 

Outside cauliflowers

there has been an infestation of white butterfly caterpillars. I would not have believed it but there they were munching my purple sprouting. They seemed to have a preference for the purple sprouting. I wonder if it is because the sprouting is a non F1 seed variety whereas the winter cabbages next to them are?
  As the photograph below shows the weed pile is growing. I decided to burn the weeds this autumn rather than compost them as my weed compost heap is getting rather large.
  In the poly tunnel nothing much has changed. The turnip/swede are looking ok as are cauliflowers. The sweet peppers I

Leeks, purple sprouting, winter cabbage

 should really now take up as should the chili peppers. There is a useful crop of beetroot that I need to harvest. Looking to pickle these.
   With the change in the weather it is unlikely that I will get outside very much so the emphasis now changes to dealing with the gathered non hybrid seed. I have already podded the Champion of England peas and have other plants to do. Also I need to exam my seed collection and see if I need to get anymore seed. So still plenty to do!

Growing weed pile