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Searching through years of kale photos never gets

Searching through years of kale photos never gets boring! As well as tasting great they have the greatest structures and patterns around!🥬
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Autumnal showers with these colder nights seem to

Autumnal showers with these colder nights seem to push the brassicas on and especially the white and purple sprouting broccoli. Don’t just eat those flower buds, make sure you have the stems and the leaves🙌🥦
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Get out there and buy those orange balls of joy! L

Get out there and buy those orange balls of joy! Luckily most pumpkins for sale in the UK are grown here and the same applies in lots of other countries as well. Make sure you’re eating them as well as carving your favourite face into them! Finally recycle them if you can into green waste, as feed for birds and rodents or compost them at home. DON’T JUST THROW THEM IN THE BIN👍🎃👍
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That one time I didn’t quite grow a big enough p

That one time I didn’t quite grow a big enough pumpkin to fit in and then got @littlesamtheflowerman to float in it!😆 In America where giant pumpkins are everywhere you get proper races with large hollowed out pumpkins, sometimes even with engines one!!🎃
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It’s time you we told those imported Spanish but

It’s time you we told those imported Spanish butternuts to f**k off! Here in the UK we grow loads of wonderful squashes and pumpkins but the commercial shops seem to think it’s best to ship them in from elsewhere! Go to your local farm shop or grower and grab a strange looking squash, it won’t bite, honest!
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The tiny purple cauliflower forest! This one was f

The tiny purple cauliflower forest! This one was for dinner and think I prefer these coloured varieties of cauliflower. Next to try is orange, green and yellow!🥬
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It was pretty gloomy yesterday and it’s looking

It was pretty gloomy yesterday and it’s looking the same for today! Perfect time to crack on with seed saving, writing, seed ordering and maybe a quick beard brush!
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These flowers from @littlesamtheflowerman just kee

These flowers from @littlesamtheflowerman just keep on coming and they still look great, even now we are well into autumn🙌🌸🙌
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Lots of rain today but I had a small flash of sun

Lots of rain today but I had a small flash of sun yesterday. I’m slowly clearing the polytunnel out so I can get a fresh load of compost on the ground and do some more prep ready for next year!🌶
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Buttonhole Kale! Very tasty, sweet and the full he

Buttonhole Kale! Very tasty, sweet and the full head looks pretty. This variety is fairly new and makes a great addition to the kale mix!🥬
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Picked the first few kale bags this morning! Nice

Picked the first few kale bags this morning! Nice little selection of Emerald Ice, Buttonhole and everybody’s favourite Cavolo Nero🙌🥬
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I always say if you don’t want to eat it, make a

I always say if you don’t want to eat it, make alcohol from it! First batch of wine from the grapes outside the house. A dry rosé that’s actually bloody tasty! Next up a white and a crazy pink sloe wine. Get turning those homegrown fruits and veg into wine....cheers🙌🍷
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Pack up that irrigation.....well unless you’re s

Pack up that irrigation.....well unless you’re still using it! I always like to remove the whole system each year but if you can’t be bothered, just remove the timer as it will help it last longer! Removing the system helps stop frost splitting the pipes as well as any giant feet stepping on bits and breaking them off(I’ve already done this, twice)🤦🏼‍♂️ Finally, installing it in spring will give you a chance to check it all over rather then playing hunt the leak!💦
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What can I grow in autumn? Well lots but you bette

What can I grow in autumn? Well lots but you better be quick before it gets too cold and I’ve put my thermal thong on!
So give these a try:

🌸Sweetpeas- Get them sown in modules and keep them inside ready to plant out next year for a really early crop!
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🌱Broad beans- Plant them out so they can over winter and get a head start next year!
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🧄Garlic- Plant them now so they get a cold kick and grow really fast next year. You can still plant them in spring as well!
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🧅Onions- Get your autumn varieties in the ground now, not suitable if you have heavy/waterlogged ground!
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🥬Perpetual spinach- Also known as spinach beet, it can be sown in early autumn and can be picked into winter.
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🌱Asparagus- You’ll be in it for the long game but plant out autumn asparagus crowns. Yes they look like the face sucker from alien!
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🌱Rhubarb- Buy pieces or crowns to plant out or split an old plant and replant it all to rejuvenate it!
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🌱Hardy spring onions- You can get some tough autumn sown varieties that should withstand the cold.
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🌱Peas- Sow peas indoors in trays for pea shoots or sow them in modules and overwinter for an early crop in spring!
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🥬Winter salad mixes can be grown under fleece or in a tunnel/greenhouse!
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They might of taken a beating in the wind but I sp

They might of taken a beating in the wind but I spy some tiny sprouts forming! These are ‘Red Bull’, more of a purple variety and something different from the green ones. Sprouts are best picked after they’ve had a bit of frost as it causes them to become sweeter and lose some bitterness🙌
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Autumn in the garden- Lots of kale and lots of wee

Autumn in the garden- Lots of kale and lots of weeds! Bows the time to start with repairs and changes to the infrastructure including sorting the tunnel doors and the garden gates followed swiftly by lots of compost, hopefully!
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Removing the last lot of plants from the polytunne

Removing the last lot of plants from the polytunnel. Don’t forget to remove any fallen or rotten tomatoes off the floor as they will cause a million and one small tomato seedlings to germinate everywhere next year. 🍅
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Dried and ready for next year👍 . . #cucumber #s

Dried and ready for next year👍
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Saving seeds! Give it a try but make sure your sav

Saving seeds! Give it a try but make sure your saving something that’s not a hybrid. Cucumbers and tomatoes are nice and easy to do at home with little effort. For cucumbers I remove the seeds and wash those little gel ball-sacks off that cover them and dry them out. Tomato seeds are a bit fiddly and so fermenting them for a day in a jar of water will help clean/sterilise them🙌🥒🍅
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Buttonhole kale isn’t that scary! If you haven’t got loads of room at home then kale plants in pots that are carefully picked can last for months! I find the best for this are curly and cavolo nero but give your favourite one a try!🥬
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