More apples, more pumpkins

Everything seems to be slowing down on the allotment, it's getting cooler and the day's shorter. I cant believe it's October in a week. I'm being asked a lot: have you got any apples left? Yes, I have apples left. There's a whole box in the hallway full. I picked more today, I slung a carrier bag around me with some heavy duty jute string and climbed the bramley tree in wellington's.

I keep feeding and feeding the pumpkins, determined to have one bigger than last year. In my heavy-ish soil they seem to grow better in hills of compost and potash.
 
I'm bagging and freezing hops tomorrow. The fun.

Harvesting the biggest Apples...

before they are pinched by $£!# heads -it would be okay if people just asked. A box has already gone to a scout group.

Also went to the new library. Very swank though a lack of classic books. Only two copies of Dostoevsky, though that's two more than the old one. I got Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Orwell Diaries.

Photo taken with sisters iphone, hence the focus.

Allotment update

Yin yang beans now have beans on them. Corn is seeding. Lots of courgettes. Hops are developing burs, little flowers that go on to produce hops -WHOOP. Will soon be pickling gherkins. And two of the apple trees have lots of apples on them.