Autumn

 Everything is looking very sad, now that autumn is upon us. We have not had a lot of rain, or indeed any frost yet, but it is a lot colder and the days are much shorter, with less light. My French beans finished a long time ago, and I am now picking the brown pods for seeds for next year, the runner beans similarly.
The butternut squash are limping on, and I am harvesting them - they keep for months.
The sweetcorn are just about finished. Many were eaten by mice(?) so there are only a few in the freezer.

On a slightly brighter note, many of my garlic cloves have sprouted (on the right in the picture) also some of the overwintering onions, planted in the plastic as usual to keep down the weeds.
When time allows, I will take out everything (except of course onions, garlic, swede, leeks and white sprouting broccoli) then add loads of compost and manure to plots 1 and 2, which will be for beans, sweetcorn, peas etc next year. This will all be dug in before Christmas, to allow it time to mature. Plots 3 and 4 will be fertilised and dug. Plot 5 - where my strawberries are - will be weeded, and the new strawberry plants (from the runners that I rooted in pots) will be planted out.