Running out of titles for harvest posts

19 October 2009

More from the garden as I gradually clear away the rows I sowed months ago. The cucumbers are done now and all the blighted tomatoes have been brought in and the plants disposed of. Paper bags full of tomatoes now sit on my window sill – some are a-ok and just need to ripen, others are a little odd-looking and will do what they’ll do.

I’ve dug over the soil I don’t need to stand on for a while, leaving a path between my two rows of great big carrots and the compressed patch in front of the runner beans, where I stand to pick the long pods. A fat frog accompanied me while I worked on Saturday, trying fruitlessly at one point to headbutt his way below the fence before hopping off under the hedge to explore and later returning to check on my progress. Between the nematode worms and the frog and his friends, the slug population has been kept pretty low this year, so I’ll be buying more of those magic microscopic worms next spring.

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