What's going on in your garden (2024)?

Figs, raspberries, courgettes heading towards narrow, butternut squashes, potatoes, NZ yams, and more... But not many tomatoes green or otherwise.

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And I've just spotted the gorgeous butterfly on the garden.

It's an orchard Swallowtail I believe.
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It's hard to convey the size of it. But it's bigger than the small bits in the garden. But think size of your (adult) hand and you'll be close


 
We have had a few dry days so this morning, cleared a lot of fox poo off the back lawn, mowed and put some washing out, TVC was cutting stuff back and weeding. Looks so much better already, do some more this afternoon, it is dry, sunny and breezy so wanted to crack on as it is supposed to be raining again tomorrow.
 
I went raspberry picking again. Slightly more than I had anticipated by about 100%. I should have taken 2 bags out.

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I came out with almost 1kg. Some more were in a second bag. The raspberries were huge!

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I also ended up with 15 or so courgettes and 5kg of figs.

I found a few ripe strawberries but they never made it out of the veg plot.

I also find a 4th butternut squash on the outside of the veg plot that we didn't know we had.
 
And some more raspberries, courgettes and figs. These might be the penultimate lot of figs if the weather doesn't warm up at night. We're due 8°C by the end of the week and that will start the end of season leaf drop on the fig trees which literally go from fully leafed to nothing overnight.

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My raspberries were literally dropping off the canes today. A sign that I should have picked them yesterday.

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There is at least the same quantity again yet to ripen, but then I think it will be much smaller quantities. The weather is starting to cool now.

But there were no figs and there should have been over 2kg of them. The wild birds had beaten me to it and left the evidence behind, still attached to the branches (they don't eat the stem). I may get 1 last harvest from the figs, but the leaves are starting to turn which is a sign that the short season is coming to an end.

I've got several more butternut squash to ripen yet, and a few more courgettes. The greens are doing well and the strawberry plants are trying to take over the veg plot. I'm pulling them up by the hundred at the moment. The new rhubarb plant is doing well. Hopefully we'll be able to try a stalk or two next season. It will grow all through winter here. That way we can taste it and make sure we like it. That's the reason we dig out the old rhubarb and threw it away. We didn't like it.
 
I harvested a couple more butternut squash and dig up a few potatoes to use for our evening meal.

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These particular potatoes were spare that I couldn't fit into the potato bed in spring, so I threw them in to a spare scrap of land, unfertilised, unmulched, and totally neglected. They died back earlier than the other potatoes which was no surprise but given I only planted 5 small spuds and totally neglected them, they've done well. The other potatoes are still growing!
 
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