Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
The pumpkins are doing really well. We will have a LOT of "halloween" pumpkins and now the butternuts are really going crazy too. It is almost impossble to walk through the polytunnel now, the plants are so dense. Am also picking courgettes, gherkins, cucumbers (took a bagful into work for cucumber sandwiches) and also tomatoes. Am also picking "leaf lettuce".
Outside we have pulled up all the onions and garlic and they are drying in the barn. I am gradually pulling up carrots and we even had a couple of parsnips this week (though they are better left until the frost has got 'em). We still have French beans coming and the runner beans are going crazy too (at last... I love runner beans) (and they make a welcome change from courgettes). Leeks, jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, beetroots are still in the ground. I think we have the quantities all wrong. Next year I promise I will only plant 2 or 3 courgette plants and only half a bed of beetroot. We will plant more beans though and more parsnips.
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