Wallflowers and toadstools

After several days of heavy rain, it was great to get to the garden in bright autumn sunshine today. The pond was full to overflowing. Anne was busy dismantling the Owl yurt.....sad in some ways but she will be glad to get it in before worse weather.

There was a handful of French beans from the newest rows. They never crop so heavily as summer ones but are very welcome nontheless.

Here are the rows.

I brought two trugs of wallflowers home today. They are now planted in our front garden. The Bellis daisies have rust similar to that found on the leeks so I don`t know if they will survive for long.

There are spectacular mini-forests of fungi sprouting along the chipped bark paths. The bark must be starting to rot down. Some of the paths will need a new layer this autumn. I must contact Andy.

I brought the last of the green tomatoes home and pulled up the plants in the greenhouse. Steve dismantled the growbags with peppers and aubergines. I am starting to bring in short canes and stakes to keep them dry.

Today there were a couple of courgettes and a few runner beans, lots of brocolli, 

a bunch of dahlias and some helichrysum.

A few sweetpeas are still hanging on.

The pumpkins are drying off in our garden room guarded by Pumpkin Man.

This is an Alan Dart pattern.

This is next year`s garden!!!

Last week we went to Wyevales Garden Centre and found all the packets of seeds reduced to 50p. Since some of the packets were originally £2 and over this represented a huge saving for us. We spent a very happy hour going through all the tubs to find what we wanted and tried hard not to get way-laid 

by frivolous choices.

At home during the bad weather I washed all the used garden labels remembering the whole growing season through the names I was rubbing off.

I also put all my home-saved seed into home-made seed packets.

Very satisfying.