Pumpkins

The heaviest is 20kg.

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.

Pumpkins

The biggest one will be going to the scouts to carve up. The last pumpkin is odd shaped, even better for Halloween.