Autumn!

September round up here, so i can look back and objectively see what has been going on. Because if I rely on my memory.......!

Today we are still in September but  the Very Last of our courgette plants were pulled up. And what have I learned? Why, to germinate earlier and that any gifted Must be sheltered in this garden! Will we grow again? For sure.  

Well this was interesting!  Corn  grown in buckets plus very late to germinate and plant out but in spite of everything I have got to see how these plants grow! That's a very immature husk of corn right there and there are others as well. So, although i won't be getting  proper ears of corn to eat.....i might very well have enough corn silk to make a tincture.

Kale and goodness me doesn't it just keep going! 

We WILL be growing these next year, they Do require more direct light in the early stages than these darlings had and I think this is Not the correct place for them. But overall? Overall massive success!

Achocha and at the moment the fruit are finger-length. Smaller, apparently, they can be eaten raw, but not by me. Larger these can be stuffed, which in the interests of research Might happen.

A type of St John's Wort....that will not be staying....if only because a whole load of grass needs to be growing Right There. (Plus I really do not like it.)

We can Never have too much of this sedum. 

Divisions will continue + new plants Will be bought. 

Outstanding , delivers in buckets but does require some  tender loving care next year so....off to read up about what this involves.

Last year , I would have given this away. I am no longer of the same opinion!

It will stay.......if the slugs can be persuaded to leave it alone...

I ....normally.....adore these. But in This garden?

In this garden , the pink roots go berserk  and within six months are half way down the drive. And the overhanging hawthorns ensure leggy plants with not-at-all pleasing and very droopy flowers.

It can be potted up but will Not remain where it currently is.

When we moved in, I was for removing this, forthwith. Now? 

Now this has earned its keep many times over and i would never be without it. Gorgeous pop of colour on the darkest of days.

What on earth is all this about!

I  present one..... leggy...is it a.... hebe? Whatever it is , a younger me would have uprooted this by now! But, for now anyway, it stays. The pollinators have adored it .

Here we are, end of a second season in Aberdeenshire and what has been learned?

* To be outside if at all possible is a priority. There will always be rainy and windy days, we can do inside jobs Then!

* Germination goes well in this garden, I can germinate most things. It is the growing on that presents a challenge.

* Covid19 was a pain, but for a naturally introverted person not as much of a pain for me  as it was for many others. 

* The overall outlines of our garden Do need to be reinforced as of next year. There may be gaps, so be it. Structure is needed.

* In 2019 , I grew what was to hand. 2020 will require Choice! And planning..

If this sounds as though I was outside a lot, that is because I Was outside a lot!

Did we do much else? Well not really!   

Maybe... we both got a little interested in cooking and baking? It is for sure a blessing to be married to someone who loves grocery shopping. One shed came down this year while another is being made watertight and everso slightly warmer. The year planner didn't happen, the diary kinda did and we have not travelled NEARLY as much as we normally do.  Our camper van is in for substantial repairs, will he stay with us afterwards. We really do not know , yet.

It is mid afternoon, the hawthorn berries are tumbling along sweeping branches outside the window. Our tree mallow is still gracefully collapsed across the lawn!  Garden blackberries that were tied in last year are doing their last big push but for some inexplicable reason this year we have not been out berry picking beyond the front gate.

Stock is boiling down on the stove.  We are out of biscuits but I utterly refuse to Buy any!

There are a dozen lettuces to transplant before nightfall and there is a Mary Stewart on the go......

Covid. Yup. It is affecting us; no visits to other people, no one staying here. Grandchildren I would like to meet! 

But overall? Overall we have food,  drink,  shelter and warmth..... my bar is low. 

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