[New shoot]

It seems to have come round quick this year, but my plot and greenhouse are emptying out fast.

The plot toms got blighted and had to be pulled up last week (sticks lip out and stomps a bit), the squash are mostly done, the cucumbers have just lost all hope and gone yellow and a lot of the french beans are finishing now.  Even at home I have ditched the aubergines in the greenhouse - nearly September and 1 tiny baby fruit - pah!  The sweet peppers had a few decent fruits, but nothing more to come so I picked what there was and pulled those out as well.

I do actually enjoy this part of the growing cycle, but it just feels too soon 

[Christine]

I've been on the filling spaces for the autumn for a couple of weeks - mind the leeks are sulking. But I'm hoping that with a wet weekend the late lettuces and dwarf purple beans will pick up and the kale/psb will also put on a decent show just so that stuff is showing for the inspections Bank Holiday Sunday.

Having had a couple of years over Christmas months off with knee replacements bedding in I do need a decent winter period to get the soil back into condition. So winter crops need to be balanced with back breaking work.

[rowlandwells]

cleared the onion beds cultivated the ground sowed green manure cut most of the red cabbage and a few white cabbage cleared most of the raised beds and made them tidy till I winter dig them still have some beetroot to pull and a few beds left with celeriac kale and carrots need to cultivate some spare ground for the rest of our leek plants still have runner beans and squashes to harvest before i can get down to tidying the ground may spray the the  weeds prior to winter ploughing don't want to plough the ground to early planning plough around November there's still plenty of time we could  get some warm dry weather before autumn sets in at least that's what the farmer are looking for 

[Growster...]

I do actually enjoy this part of the growing cycle, but it just feels too soon 

It does, doesn't it, News!

I cleared a load of loosestrife the other day, and while I like the front garden to be full of stuff like weigela, dogwood etc, it's already looking tired, and it won't be long before I'm in there with the strimmer to clear all the dross etc...

We always have new geraniums in pots around the place, usually pillar-box red, and they've only just got going this week, which is madness! They'll be dead soon if all this goes on much longer! Our begonias are a delight though, and are a cert for next year!

I'm sorry about your toms - they really have been battered unmercifully with friends around here this year, but as a confession to you a lovely chum, I have used quite a lot of Bordeaux Mixture this year, which has kept it all at bay, well, so far... Please don't tell the 'thought police'...

[Subversive_plot]

A raised bed formerly planted with squash (killed by vine borers) is still fallow, but I hope to start planting beets, carrots, and greens there soon.

Tomatoes are slowing but still producing. They should produce through September at least.

Green beans and wax beans (aka French beans) that I planted 2 weeks ago in my old beds from last year are already up the trellis, knee high to waist high. I am hoping they will produce starting in September and through at least October.

I'll transition to lettuce, spinach and such in late October to November.

[Goosegirl]

All the beetroot are out except for a few late sown ones. The kale got eaten by something so that's coming out. More of my carrots still left to harvest, climbing French bean producing some beans at long last, leeks doing ok so far, toms now ripening  and sweet corn yet to reveal its cobs but, like Growster says, there are definite signs of autumn as most of the petunias and pansies are way past it and will be tugged out next week. Having said that, my new Morelo cherry tree has a bit of blossom again - ?

[Growster...]

Autumn planting in place this week - ordered the 'Sugar Rush' Wallflowers today, to take over from the Sweet Williams...

...and it's only August..:0~

[bobbyt]

All onions and spuds coming out of the ground this week, runner beans nearly finished - harvested plenty. Couple of summer cabbage to harvest, beetroots ready, carrots still growing and sweetcorn should be fully harvested by next week before we go away for 3 weeks for a long awaited break in the sun. Leeks doing ok and peas still not flowered - no idea whats happening there, maybe planted a bit late. Butternut squash spreading everywhere from 3 plants, never grown before, so wasn't too sure what to expect ! Plenty of fruit on there, but still got light green stripes in places, think they should go beige when ripe ? Tomatoes still green, and PSB growing - something else I haven't attempted before. Stem broccoli turned out to be cabbage - no idea, wrong seeds in pack? Not a bad season on the whole.

[Goosegirl]

Bobbyt, my sugar snaps I sowed in April plus another lot sowed in June have done miserably. They've struggled to climb and have only produced a few flowers. 

Growster, I've ordered wallflower" Wizard" plug plants to add to my "Persian Carpet" ones I sowed in late June in case I have any failures, which was probably a good thing as a few are getting brown lower leaves.

I do feel that Autumn is coming fast and just hope my sweet corn do the biz in time.

[Growster...]

They look fabulous, Goosey - Wallflowers are a fave here!

The only reason we get 'Sugar Rush', is that we just love our GC; they kept everything going all last year despite all odds, as they're an independent and not a huge place, and they made us a priority, which was so nice of them, delivering seeds, even compost etc., when they could get it!

We've known them for ages, and just love pottering around there - I took them a big bag of toms and cuces up today, as our lovely chum had blight on all the tom plants I gave her earlier in the year, so feel better about it now!

[Enfield Glen]

Tidied up all the blanks of wood that I use to divide the plot and save walking on the soil. Also harvested the squash as its ripe, Butternut is a utter disaster, only got a few and what did grow are very very small. all the onions are now up and drying at home.

[Christine]

Oh the joys of turning compost bins - a lovely messy job. Especially as the bank holiday weekend up here has been mostly sulky showers just as anything gets done. But most of the turning is done and the mess cleared up. Had to be done as the pumpkin vines need to go somewhere soon. And all the other bits and pieces of "greens" like the soon to be spent flowers of the herb bed.

There's just the heap where the hedge cuttings were dumped on top of the face down turfs from assorted clearings back in the day. That is going to be a major as the bins won't take the pumpkin vines and the hedge cuttings, some of which are a bit thick for compost. Something to do for the winter.

[AnneB]

Spent this morning disposing of blighted outdoor tomatoes - including Crimson Crush.  Then chopped the haulms off my blighted Ratte and Sarpo Blue Danube spuds.  It hadn't got very far on the spuds, so hoping the crop will be ok when I dig it up in a couple of weeks.  I have harvested 1 Ratte plant already and it is a lovely crop, so fingers crossed.
I have had 1 decent sized aubergine so far, another couple still small.
Only 1 cucumber so far, 3 more developing.
Lots of unripe greenhouse peppers and polytunnel tomatoes.
A few beans, but poor really.  Drying beans looking dubious that they will mature given daylight and temperature.
Courgettes still going berserk but zero doing on my squash, very poor.
Sweetcorn not ripe yet.
Leeks going to seed.
Fruit fantastic though, as were onions and garlic.
Sprouts haven't grown much.
A very mixed bag all round