A good harvest of squash and pumpkin this year ripening in the tunnel before being stored indoors, most were grown outdoors.
The big ones are lady Godiva's, they are grown for their tasty seeds, the others are mostly acorn, butternut, pink bananas.... grown for their delicious flesh, great for roasting or for soups, they will store for months, providing a big part of our winter dinners and plenty to share.
Alfie and Tivon scooping out the lady Godiva pumpkin seeds.
Tivon collecting the good seeds for eating.
There now follows way too many photos of our cat, Daub, sprawling on the potting bench which is in the small tunnel! Not all of Daub though, so scroll on down for a brief look back through the year.
August 31st.
August 31st.
August 19th.
Nicotiana growing outside the small tunnel on the left, on either side of the doors, sweet pea.
The scent was fabulous. August 11th.
Small tunnel August 19th, Grapes swelling, Squash spreading. It was a very good year for peaches too. The squash were planted in the beds after the early potatoes were harvested in June.
August11th.
Alfie in the small tunnel...
... Potting on cuttings of Plectranthus argentatus 'Silver Shield', August 7th.
Daub on the potting bench, July 6th, one of his favourite beds!
Having a good stretch! July 6th
The small tunnel with its new plastic, new growing year begun. April 29th.
And a last photo of Daub! in the house, curled up in a cardboard box on July 25th.