My First Autumn down on the plot

From what I can see you are a professional gardener Balcony. I like the way you show the date of the photos too. This is very useful and other member should be encouraged to do the same. I give you ten marks out of ten. When I was in your age, I had an allotment myself for many. When I visited Wimpole Hall last month, I would come and admire your allotment if I knew the address and you let me in. Do grow those spanish baby cucumbers. You can find them all over the mediterranean, but they also grow and yield well in this country. I grow them every year and they are delicious.

Thank you very much, Costakis, for your lovely comment! :-)) Thanks for the very high marks, too! I put the dates on my photos so I always know when they were taken & with the tile of the file as well it makes it very easy to locate later, if necessary.

You are welcome to come & admire the allotment any time you like! We shall have to PM each other. As for the baby cucumbers they are the sort normally grown & eaten in Spain. The long, dark green ones grown here are unknown over there! Rest assured I will be growing them. I sowed some cucumber seeds this year for the first time in my 6 decades in this world. They germinated OK but later, before I could get them down to the allotment, they mysteriously died on me. :-(( I think I mentioned them in one of my first blogs, possibly back in April or even May.

I have enjoyed your blogs very much too,Balcony,you have done a brilliant job there,and glad you are able to enjoy all your lovely produce..thanks for sharing ...:o)

Thanks, Bloomer! I appreciate your feedback very much! :-)) I'm so glad you enjoyed them & I hope you will continue to enjoy my future blogs.

It's great that you've enjoyed the summer on your allotment. I've followed your progress on your blogs. It has been interesting, and I'm looking forward to your updates next year.

Great blog balcony, its amazing how much produce you have produced and obviously enjoyed , keep up the good work its very ineresting seeing the various stages of growth and of course the end product!

Thanks, Hywel & Pansypotter, your comments are always welcome & I'm glad you both liked following my fortnightly blogs. :-)) I wish I could continue them at the same frequency but now the growing season for veg is closing down & there is little to show any longer. Nevertheless, as I said at the end of the blog, there will be at least one more update before the month finishes. After that ... ?

Everything, as usual, looks so delicious, Balcony. Our 6 sweetcorn plants have very large cobs, but are only now beginning to ripen, as sacrificed one the other day to check. Hoping that the weasther allows them to hold on for another week or two, or will have to give in. Your green peppers look really good, too., and I like the idea of the spanish cucumbers. :-))

Our Sweetcorn haven't done very well at all. I asked Gerry about them the other day & he agrees they haven't done very well this year. I have only ever grown them once before, in 1972, the year I first went to Spain. Perhaps they didn't do very well because of the hot, dry summer & I often forgot to water them. They were at the end of the allotment without much else near them & so I often forgot them. I only had a couple of decent cobs. There are more on the plants still &, like you, I hope we get a warm month & that they grow big enough to harvest. Otherwise Gerry will feed them to his rabbits.

The green peppers have done much better than I was expecting a few months ago. I didn't expect to get anything from them & I was rather disappointed at first. Now however they are doing very well & I've brought some home several times. Which reminds me of our onions, we are still using them in our meals & get through 4 or 5 a week. We should have enough for a couple more months yet! I shall very definitely plant more next year. For the very first time ever in growing them I think I did very well!