The Squash harvest looks good, you’ll have already had the Spaghetti Squash and some of the Butternut squash, we have a good harvest of the Japanese squash n the cold frames for storage (this stores better than the other two)
Japanese Squash in the cold frames to keep off frost
The potato harvest carries on using the new potato lifter attachment for the tractor
Eric harvesting the spuds
and we have a newly added potato clamp using the straw bales that we used as benches in the Harvest meal
Potato clamp using straw bales, there'll be spuds in there somewhere
freshly lifted row of potatoes
The new polytunnel is doing well with new seedlings
Seedlings in the new polytunnel
Dan and Kirsty started tidying the herb garden
Dan and Kirsty tidying the Herb Garden
and discovered an elephant hawk-moth in the Great Mullein
propagating Great Mullein
and enjoyed the heady scent of the Wormwood, with some thought of making smudge sticks from it – the pungency of wormwood was traditionally used to drive out insects in the home
Kirsty with some Wormwood
Tom spotted a fox in the disrtance with designs on Lewis’s chickens, so he charged off up the field after it, causing much merriment as it looked an unequal battle, four legs good in the speed department
There's a fox out there, Tom!
It's getting colder - early morning dew on the brassicas
for all that it’s mid-October we’ve had fantastic weather for the working party
Sunflower in the fabulous sun for the working party today
It won’t be obnly the Oak tree goldfinches that benefit from the sunflowers, Tom and Kirsty will hang this one up for their garden birds
Pecked out by Kirsty, not the sparrows
