Friday, 28 October 2016

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016.

I have to hang my head in shame and admit I've neglected the garden (again!) this month.  I think I've been out there once all month, whoopsy!

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden


Having said that the garden isn't looking toooo bad, I've used a clever camera angle to cut out most of the mess though!

I even have some flowers still going! 

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

And my sweetcorn, minipops, is growing little cobs.  I planted it super late so I'm hoping to get a super late harvest before the frosts hit.

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

I'm not asking why the lettuce I planted in summer is only growing now, I'm just excited to be eating home grown lettuce in October!  This is my front garden raised bed, I cleared the fridge out and found lots of tiny garlic cloves we hadn't eaten so I planted them.  You can see them on the right of the raised bed, they've all grown so I'm hoping for bulbs in the spring!


Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

I've had a few ripe tomatoes from the tiny tim variety I planted from seed.  Only one san marzano tomato ripened, even though the plant had loads of tomatoes on it! 

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

Look how beautifully red my blueberry bushes have gone.

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

My best garden thing this month is my raspberries.  I think I said before that I was letting the branches flop over to hide the berries from birds.  This has worked really well and the berries have been huge and delicious! 

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

Diary of a suburban, edible garden, October 2016. secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #garden #gardening #subrbangarden

How's your garden this month?





3 comments:

  1. You've done really well! The raspberries look fantastic. I could do with growing some myself, as along with bananas they're the only fruit Lily wiĺl eat! Mine is still a work in progress with the cutting back (I've not had time but with things dying back now it should be easier anyway) but I'm looking forward to growing something next year. X

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  2. I think your garden looks amazing, you have only been there a short time and its thriving. I do love how the blueberry leaves turn red, shame the wind blows them away and we also have raspberries in the garden, but the birds are beating us to them.

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  3. Also hangs head in shame...
    Yours is looking good and well done on the raspberries. I had tomatoes like that last year and they didn't ripen. I have decided littlies are the way forward!

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