Month in Pictures – August 08
Despite the grotty wet weather, August still flourished and I spent almost all of my gardening time harvesting crops. Can’t complain about that but it does mean I failed to sow any overwintering crops, hopefully September sown spring cabbages will still be productive.
Blight inevitably struck towards the middle of the month so I pulled up all the spuds up and kept my fingers crossed for the health of the greenhouse tomatoes.
With the major crops out, and the blight spreading across the outdoor tomatoes the plot began to look a bit tatty towards the end of the month. Shame really but I suppose that’s the way with gardening, its time to start looking forward to the view of freshly turned soil.
Lovely photos – Particularly of “your little helper”
We certainly are creeping towards Autumn – without having had a summer.
Karen
What are the name of those gorgeous purple potatoes!!?? Enjoying your site!
I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember the name of the purple tatties. I haven’t got a very disciplined labelling habit yet. They were from Sainsburys, marked up as heritage spuds and I had 3 left over from Sunday lunch so popped them in as an experiment.
Ahhh, too bad. I’d love to get my hands on some, they’re gorgeous! Alas, I’m a kindred spirit…I too am not all that vigilant about marking/labeling things.