Our visit to the allotment this morning coincided with some typical Manchester weather – a good bit of drizzle. Thankfully we had a whole lot of tidying up to do inside the greenhouse – it’s been two weeks since we spent some serious time there and lots more of our plants have now given up for the year, so we could hide from the worst of the rain and hack down half of the tomato plants.
The greenhouse now looks incredibly tidy and spacious! Whilst we were in there we had a visitor we hadn’t seen for a while, Tammy has been camping out with another plot holder for a while but must have fancied a break from the rain. She managed to find her way into quite a few pictures 🙂
We did some more serious harvesting today – we took home our pumpkin, two squashes and a whole trug of assorted chillies, habeneros, sweet peppers, courgettes, aubergines, onions and herbs. The chilli plants have really been the stars of autumn, they are absolutely covered in fruit and we harvest loads more each time we go. We counted 48 chillies today and this was after taking lots last week. Thankfully they freeze and dry very well so we should be eating our own chillies well into next year.
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