the gate

the gate to a new gardening year

 

Juice

Apples harvested Saturday 22 October

Washed, pulped, juiced & pasteurised  at the Random Apple Co. Sunday 23 October

Result: 31 three-quarter litre bottles of apple juice

The fruit theme will continue in November as we plant 10 orchard trees

Plum Production Line

What to do with a small share of about 20kg of Victoria plums...

Jeff and Tom competed with the wasps for this evenings harvest

August Garden and Fruits of the Garden

The garden looking good

A bumper year for fruits

L - blackcurrant jelly with strawberries

Middle - redcurrant jelly

R - whitecurrant 'jamelly'  (put through a sieve rather than a jelly bag to remove pips) 

topped with redcurrant jelly

High Summer in the Garden

Fruit cage by the east wall

A heavy crop of red and white currants

Seed heads of bolted leeks left for pollinators

Faded poppies

Summer Fruits

A bumper year for fruit

Loganberries looking good

Poppy

Our first red poppy of the year came into flower

100 years and 1 day after the start of the Battle of the Somme