Collecting seeds

Whichever way you look at it, the season is coming to a premature end.

The long hot summer has put paid to many of the inground crops, such as forcing our turnips into bolting, or shorting us on the strawberries. So now the flowers and beans are coming to an end and we need to start collecting seeds for next year.

The flower department is definitely The Wife's concern. So she has been collecting seed heads from the various flowers.

Don't ask me which is which. I can only spot the Soya Beans and the Petunias in that lot. But she knows what they all are.

Meanwhile I'm tidying up the plot, cutting back the triffid (which does have quite a good selection of grapes on it this year) and harvesting spuds and such.

We have also picked our first melon. Well not so much picked, as it fell off, so it must be ripe. The other one in the greenhouse is slightly larger. These are Honey Dew melons from Sainsbury's. Not so much from a seed packet, but from an actual Honey Dew directly. They were an experiment. And possibly one of our more successful experiments at that.

Apples are from our tree (still no idea what variety it is), but because we don't use any pesticides and this year, I didn't put up any Codling Moth traps, we're rather inundated with grubs in the apples.

Ah well, as the old saying goes, there's only one thing worse than finding a maggot in your apple and that's finding half a maggot in your apple.