Storm Amy arrived, and it was a strong one.

First big one of the year, and earlier than usual, we lost all power around 5pm.

So, we got all the Camping gear out, head torches tent lights...

We are at that time of the year and have our first Storm with a name arriving over the weekend, storm Amy is on its way.

We have had a good harvest from the purple sprouting broccoli this week, although months too early and not the amount or size of heads we would usually be harvesting.

This week we started harvesting the purple sprouting, Broccoli.

It is looking great and tastes fantastic, although a few months too early.

The season has turned, it has been a nice long scorching summer, but it had to end at some point.

 

Out in the field we can now actually see how many Pumpkins we have.

The...

I had a walk through the purple sprouting Broccoli and winter Cauliflower at the end of last week.

And it looks like the long warm very dry spell of weather might have played havoc with our purple...

Our onion crop this year is one of the best ones we have had.

One reason is variety; we were forced into changing variety for a couple of reasons.

Last year I was away to order the usual...

 

Last week I was talking about all the Cabbage, Romanesco, Ruby chard, Spinach and lettuce needing planted.

 

Well yes, we did get them all planted, but I forgot to take...

 

Another week of hot, hot, hot weather, it has been an amazing summer.

The squash plants are ready much earlier than they have ever been, and we have around four per plant some five,...

Before we can put the bed weeder away for the year, we still have one job to do.

We still need to get the fleece of off the over winter crops and go through them with the weeding machines, and...