It has been overcast, with some rain, but is now getting a bit dry.
The two gardening assistants, exhausted after "helping".
Time for renewal - cleared out original celery, running to seed. Okra, which never worked, replaced with transplanted chocolate habanero.
Supplemented Mary Washington asparagus patches (third time) with new seedlings - most of the original and 2nd renewal doing fine. The oldest asparagus is flourishing, and some of the fronds are big enough to start flowering - so far look like male plants, and I suppose if any are female they'll need to be ripped out.
The assorted squashes are doing well, and are perhaps too big for more than one plant in a tyre.
Tomatoes are maybe a week or two away from ripening, and there's lots of fruit coming along.
The Moneymaker are now taller than me, and have reached the top of their stakes. Still no aphids anywhere, but some bugs showing up. Chinese cabbages are taking over and threatening to do a radish style overwhelming of neighbours, and the red lettuce is starting to bolt. Most young leaves seem to have been nibbled. Slugs and/or caterpillars?
The globe artichokes are producing, but also really too big to have more than one in a tyre. I need to thin them or transplant. Beans and peas are in full production. Brinjals still growing. Green peppers showing small fruit, small buds on larger pepperdews. Cabbage going well, heads perhaps 15cm in diameter and probably useable.
Kale quite large, baby red cabbage and brussels sprouts slowly progressing. Florence fennel aren't getting bigger - probably because they were planted in spring and not autumn - and need to decide what to do with them.
Assorted strawberries producing a handful a day, some are producing runners. Need to concentrate on propagating productive varieties.
Sunflowers doing OK. Biggest one as tall as I am.
Evening harvest.
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