Bag it, freeze it

Autumn gold

Provisions

Sweet

Nothing sweeter than a beetroot, not even a windfall apple, autumn raspberry or corn on the cob. Yet people pickle them!?

Freezer raider

     Time to dig in the freezer through some of last year's harvest.

Jam, the freezer

                        The autumn raspberries keep on coming.

Whopping windfalls

Whopping windfall apples after recent storms make up for wind damaged sunflowers and a late night tussle with a clump of ten foot jerusalem artichokes which needed tying up.

Embarrassment of riches

Cropping

Three colours red

Plump pickings

New raspberry stock in their second season producing a plump crop.

Peak plum

   Plums dropping from the sky. Stewing with raspberries and apples.

Early autumn gold

5 a day

                       Soft fruit overlap. Jam experiments.

Mix and mash

Plenty of food around now. It all needs picking and storing, processing and eating. The first of the summer raspberries are ripe as the strawberry crop dwindles. Making jam with both, separately, together, with blackcurrants. Mix and mash.

Selfsufficientish Equinox

Smugly self-sufficient in vegetables and fruit so far this month: Daily harvests of beans, lettuce, sweetcorn, spinach beet, tomatoes and raspberries. Lots of windfall apples about and potatoes, marrows, onions and garlic in storage. Basil, chillies, parsley and coriander still growing well in pots. The freezer is now full up with blackcurrants, redcurrants, strawberries, apple, gooseberries, plums, rhubarb, peas, broad beans and sweetcorn. Still need to visit the baker and the dairy though.

Newberries

Getting regular small harvests from the new autumn fruiting raspberry canes, planted six months ago. A job to keep them vaguely weed free and watered as the plants establish. The yellow variety, 'Autumn Gold' are just as vigorous and tasty as the red.

Good gourds

Plants which I'd hoped were butternut squash turned out to be inedible gourds: perhaps they'll look good on the xmas tree!?

Autumn Early

If these are the new 'Autumn Gold' raspberries, planted back in March, then autumn has come early.

Autumn Collection