A few more photos taken at the same time as the previous post. The outdoor butternut squashes aren’t exactly impressive.
But the ones in the polytunnel have done much better
The pineapple is looking very healthy. Probably about time I potted it on and brought it indoors for the winter, I think.
The chiles have suddenly started producing lots of fruit. Fortunately I’m happy to have lots of green jalapenos to pickle.
And perhaps some of the green cayennes will be a little milder and can be given to people whose heads were blown off by the red ones we had last year.
These are Corno di Toro sweet peppers, intended to be red and yellow, but I think we’ll be eating all of them green as well.
I’ve even got one or two fruit on the capsicum baccatum plants, which are now as tall as me.
My intention is that the peppers should all stay in the ground for the winter and I’ll drape some fleece over them or something like that to try to keep the chill off them and we’ll see if they grow on next year. I’ll sow replacements “just in case” as well.
I don’t think I’ll have time this weekend, but probably my next jobs are to lift and store the remaining carrots and to clear the melons and basil from the greenhouse to allow winter salads to be planted. It looks as though I might get one final pick of raspberries and blackberries too, and after that it won’t be too long before it’s time to start picking sloes. That’s autumn definitely here then 🙂