Au revoir Beans and Tomatoes. Hello Chillis

[Garden Manager]

I have to now report that my beans are over and my tomatoes nearly the same  :'(. However looking on the bright side my chillis are ripening like mad and croping fantasicaly well.

Every cloud has a silver lining eh

Oh i should add all my spuds are lifted and stored away safely too. Not much left on the plot at present.

I was wondering what stage you lot were at. Whats left to harvest. whats finished etc.

[Garden Manager]

[MrsKP]

chillis ripening slowly.  one pepper (and only pepper) still growing.

blue lake climbing beans still producing.

parsnips and leeks still doing their thang (pulled two leeks for tea last night).

must get round to eating the salad leaves before they get eaten by anything else.

my one aubergine that had set is going a bit yucky and slimey but at least i saw one !   ;D

[supersprout]

Gone over: :'(
Sweetcorn
French beans

Still ripening or cropping:
Tomatoes
Beetroot
Late planted climbing borlotti
Gigantes
Runner beans
Celeriac (starting to pull the in-between ones and eating as thinnings, they grew well this year)
Pink Fir Apple spuds
Cucumber Marketmore
Melon
Welsh Onion
Calabrese

Drying/curing/stored:
Dwarf borlotti
Squash/pumpkin
Chillis

Joys to come: :D
Parsnip
PSB, cauli and calabrese
Oriental veg
Leeks
Spinach
Scorzonera
Jerusalem Artichokes

[calendula]

I still have - cucs, grapes, chillis, runner beans, calabrese, carrots, turnips, mooli, kales, leeks, chard, fennel, oriental salads, spinach, cabbages, caulis, sprouts, beetroot, jerusalem artichokes, apples, last of the spuds to get in - think that's about it  :)

[Garden Manager]

Cor! you all seem to have lots left to come. lucky devils. I tried a sowing of salads for some late crops, but germination was very poor so had to scrap that idea. I do have some leeks, kale and overwintering onion coming on and i intend to sow some broad beans to overwinter soon.

Apart from that the plot is going to be quite empty soon. Although finished i am leaving the beans up as long as possible, if only to fill the space and make the plot look a bit greener!

[calendula]

it's probably a bit late for green manures now (depending on where you live) but they are worth considering sowing when areas become empty, some are nice to look at as well  :)

[supersprout]

Us northerners (well, comparatively) might have crops still a-cumin in that you've had yonks ago in Dorset GC?

[Squashfan]

party's over for beans, squash, potatoes, tomatoes :'( all picked except one small pumpkin
still picking chard, beets, bit of lettuce
to come: celeriac, ps broccoli, kale, parsnips, brussel sprouts
have to plant onions n garlic this weekend.
planting broad beans in a month or so.
I'm a greedy thing, I think to keep the plot going through the winter!  ;D

[Mrs Ava]

Everything on my plot seems to have started all over again!  Beans look lush, so do the toms.  I am loosing the battle of the munch where cucumbers are concerned as we have toooooooooooo many!  The only thing we don't have now is lettuce, and like you Richard, mine haven't germinated again.  I will sow some in a trough in the greenhouse so we have some for winter use.

[Multiveg]

Finished:
Tomatoes  :(

Gone over:

Runner beans (though the variety can by dried for "butter beans")
Peas
French beans (though again, can be used dried)

Still ripening/maturing:
Chillis
Squash/pumpkin things
Sweetcorn

Still to come:
One cauliflower thing
Couple of holey cabbages
One Parsnip - awaiting a frost for best flavour!
A florence fennel
PSB
Leeks
Possibly more peppers from one plant growing on windowsill
Sprouts, though harvested a handful this week.

[Garden Manager]

Everything on my plot seems to have started all over again!  Beans look lush, so do the toms.  I am loosing the battle of the munch where cucumbers are concerned as we have toooooooooooo many!  The only thing we don't have now is lettuce, and like you Richard, mine haven't germinated again.  I will sow some in a trough in the greenhouse so we have some for winter use.

i have managed to get a few going in cells EJ. They wouldnt germinate in the ground (in mid august). The plants in cells are still tiny so when we, will get to eat them who knows?

[saddad]

So much to eat... so little time!
;D

[Georgie]

In my potty little patch the french, runner and borlotti beans, raspberries and the celery have finished.   :(  Still coming are cucumbers, toms, watercress, spring onions, Greek cress, radish, various herbs and cape gooseberries.   ;D  Yet to harvest Swiss chard and will be planting more onions and garlic mid October.   :)

G x

[Chantenay]

Gone - but not forgotten: homeguard and sharpes express and my beloved kestrel potatoes (there will be more next year), sweetcorn, peas, broadbeans, globe artichokes, blauhilde beans, mooli, tiny turnips. aubergines, the early carrots. Doris and Alice - the strawberry ladies.

Still hanging in there: french and runner beans, cavolo nero. Courgettes. Chard (yuk, it can stay there). Not edible - but my lovely dahlias. New this year - autumn bliss raspberries - why did I wait so long to grow  this joy.

Ripening/nearly here: king edwards, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, romanesco, maybe some tiny caulis, my lovely melissa savoys, chillis and peppers and tomatoes. Apples, pears.

Waiting for the first frosts: parsnips, swedes, winter carrots, leeks, early purple, more cabbages than you can shake a rabbit at, next years caulis, kale, sprouts.

Stored away: garlic and onions, shallots. Stuff in the freezer and in jars.

And soon -  the king edwards come out of the ground, the garlic goes in, and the whole thing starts again. Soooo satisfying.

[grawrc]

Still have indoor toms, raspberries, celeriac, potatoes, sweetcorn, runner beans, courgettes, pumpkins, cauliflower, cabbage, calabrese, broccoli, carrots, spring onions, parsnip.... errm... I think that's it!

[Garden Manager]

 i think what has happened with my grops this year si that despite a slow start, the hot summer weather accellerated growth and cropping. My tomatoes for example were nearly a month ahead of last year when they started to ripen. Consequently the went on longer cropping into autumn last year (I even had to try a few 'tricks' to get them to ripen in time). In my veiw this is no bad thing. Some crops just dont taste the same in autumn as they do in summer, tomatoes particularly.

It also means i can clear the beds/greenhouse and start afresh rather than hanging on waiting for things to finish croping.

Sad it maybe but the upside is that cropping has (generaly) been good and I have plenty in store to last through the autumn and into early winter.

[flossie]

The last of the plums today in a delicious crumble ;D