Ashmead's Kernel

...Harvesting 99% complete. About 300 good fruit out of ~1000

First good apple...

..from the Ashmead's Kernal

Fuchsia...

...first harvest of the berries. Slightly perfumed taste

Blueberry bush...

...thinks it's Autumn.

Chenopodium giganteum 'magentaspreen'

....now up to 7'

First 'Latah' tomato...

...harvested today. Good

First outdoor tomato ripe

Lovely 'Golden Cherry'

Broad Beans over, Viginian Stock doing well

Had last of the Broad Bean crop last night. The 'Red Epicure' variety is
definitely good! Cut down the stems and put in compost bin. No sign of the
undersown French Beans yet.

Viginian Stock in full flower. Sprinkled on some more seed to keep it
going.

Chenopodium giganteum 'Magentaspreen'

... about 4' tall. Just after the rain

Turnip 'Manchester Market'

Seedlings showing.

Amaranthus - cruentus Intense Purple

Flowering now. About 9" high.

Autumn Fruiting Raspberry!

Had a couple of 'Autumn Bliss'. Usual time is from late August!

Dwarf Bean 'Purple Teepee'

Sowed a patch of these under the nearly finished Broad Bean crop.

Brassicas

Pak Choi sown 25 June 2011 showing seedlings.
Sowed a row of Turnip 'Manchester Market'

Buddleja, Cape Gooseberry, Echium & Oenothera missouriensis

Buddleja in flower but despite powerful fragrance has not attracted any
butterflies.
Cape Gooseberry plant (near bamboo pole), Echium Pininana x Wildprettii
(near square stake). Yellow flower is Evening Primrose, Oenothera
missouriensis

More flowers

First Petunia grown from seed is out. Pink and white striped.
Malcolmia maritima, first flowering too. Started on the "throw a bit of
seed on the ground" system.

Dianthus deltoides 'Flashing Light' (mutant)

Horribly blurred photo through a magnifying glass but on the left is the "standard" flower but on
the right is the single lighter coloured mutant I found today.

Reichardia Picroides

Flowering now, but still looks like a scruffy weed! Harvested some leaves and put with tomatoes
and a honey/mustard dressing. A lot nicer than you'd expect :)

Apple thinning

Taken about a bucket of 3cm apples off the Ashmead's Kernal. It set about
1000 fruit and some branches were near the ground under the weight. Should
reduce "bitter pit" and "biennial bearing" Plan is that no developing
fruit should be within 10cm of any other. Think I've got about 1/4 of the
job done. Realise I'll need to get the step ladder out and reflect on the
expression "low hanging fruit"

Pak Choi 'Shanghai'

Sowed a row this afternoon

Mesembryanthemum criniflorum - pic

Potato 'Home Guard

Harvested a pot today. This variety was developed in the UK during the second world war

Purple Flowers

A low growing thyme and some Surfinas. Surfinas are a modern form of
Petunia that seems to flower for months and shrugs off the rain.

Mesembryanthemum criniflorum

Big, densely seeded pot of these is beginning to flower

Eschscholzia californica

California Poppy 'Red Chief' first flowering

Lilies

The Lilium Regales are blooming well.
The Melon plant (Minnesota Midget) is looking quite sickly.
Sowed some more Portulaca grandiflora seeds in a sunny dry spot
Tayberry and Gooseberry fruiting well
Potato "Home Guard" plant keeled over and looks sick. Probably ready to
harvest.