{"id":8001,"date":"2022-09-03T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2022\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:31:18","slug":"safely-gathered-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2022\/susan\/safely-gathered-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Safely gathered in"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We are now at the stage where the allotment beds are emptying and our main focus is clearing and tidying beds. We are still waiting for some rain so that we can dig the beds over and then leave them until next spring.\u00a0 Where we have been watering crops the soil although very dry is workable. The soil where the potatoes were planted is hard and lumpy. For now, until we get some decent rain we can only leave those beds.<\/p>

A few crops are still growing, one being the crop of leeks. We seem to have a plant with variegated leaves. It looks more like an ornamental plant. I’ve never come across a leek with leaves like this before – have you?<\/p>

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I’m sure that the beds aren’t usually so bare in what, I guess, is now the very beginning of meteorological autumn.<\/p>

Although we have been busy, clearing and tidying hardly make for interesting photos but we have done lots of harvesting too.<\/p>

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29 August – Sweet corn, onions, carrots, apples, tomatoes, blackberries, raspberries, cabbage, courgettes, a few peas, a few French beans and a couple of stray potatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

I found the two potatoes when I cleared the pea bed. They were just laying on the soil so goodness knows where they came from.<\/p>

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We have cleared all the sweet corn and now it is safely bagged and frozen. Stripping the kernels was quite a long job and I was wondering what type of machine they could use when preparing corn on an industrial scale. We didn’t expect any cobs to have been fertilised, as there was no sign of pollen falling when I brushed the plants, but in the end, we had a good harvest.<\/p>

We have also been pleased with the red onions which we grew from seed. The bulbs haven’t grown very big, but there again, this year, neither have the onions grown from sets. None of the onions have bolted this year and only one or two had signs of any rot.<\/p>

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2 September – Sweet corn, various apples, courgettes, carrots, plums, raspberries, beetroot and blackberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The red apples are a variety called Tickled Pink; their flesh is red to the core.<\/p>

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We found a stowaway on one of our Egremont Russet apples. Has anyone any idea of what type of spider this is? Its legs were really long, although it seems to have lost one,\u00a0 and it has some quite ferocious looking palps.<\/p>

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We removed all the peppers from the plants in the garden greenhouse. and they were prepared and frozen. It was a mixed packet of seeds and there has been more dark maroon peppers than any other colour.
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We are still harvesting lots of ripe tomatoes and, as our freezers are just about full, so I have been delivering tomatoes to our neighbours.<\/p>

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As usual details of our harvests are posted here<\/a>.<\/p>

Away from the allotment, there were some very colourful sunsets last week. The photos below were taken on an evening walk with Ruby.\"\"<\/p>

Last week at Nostell, we had a much closer view of the family of swans. Despite the cygnets being well grown, the parent birds are still very protective of them. The male swan was very aggressive towards any ducks that invaded their space.<\/p>

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I don’t think that it will be long now before the cygnets leave and go off in search of somewhere else to settle down.<\/p>

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We went back to Wentworth Castle last week as we wanted to explore the deer park. Visitors are allowed access to the park but have to keep to the grass paths and mustn’t approach the deer too closely. Ruby hadn’t seen deer before but was unfazed and just watched the deer with great interest.<\/p>

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Two species, fallow and red deer live in the park.<\/p>

Ruby was puzzled by the chain that kept visitors away from the rotunda. She is drawn to flights of steps and couldn’t understand why she wasn’t allowed to run up the steps.<\/p>

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Near the end of our walk we had to negotiate a stile. We did wonder how we could get Ruby over the stile but, as we approached it, we noticed that there was a doggy trap-door. The door had to be raised using a rope handle and Ruby was coaxed through. I don’t think that she was overly impressed.<\/p>

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Once over the stile we had to cross a field of sheep. Another first for, Ruby. One sheep stared at Ruby who stared back. Maybe the sheep mistook her for a lamb as she also has a woolly coat. I did try for a photo but most of my photos were overexposed as my camera had accidentally been moved onto the wrong setting,<\/p>

On to meal-times.<\/p>

One of last week’s meals that used home-grown ingredients was a vegetable orzo dish that used, garlic, courgette and carrot. I forgot to take a photo but the recipe is here<\/a>.<\/p>

I made a turkey and vegetable stroganoff that incorporated our peppers, courgette, onion, garlic and parsley. The recipe has disappeared from the Internet but other ingredients used were, turkey, mushrooms, chicken stock and paprika. I also used coconut yoghurt as an alternative to natural yoghurt.<\/p>

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I made a chicken stir fry with pineapple and cabbage. The recipe has also disappeared off the Internet. I used our peppers, cabbage and garlic along with fresh root ginger, stock and, although the recipe called for soy and fish sauce, I used Worcestershire sauce. Basmati rice was cooked in stock and stirred into the stir fry before serving.
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That’s all for this week – as always stay safe and well.<\/p>

Once again I am linking to Harvest Monday<\/a> over at Dave’s Our Happy Acres blog.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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