Ravendale House

So there I was, enjoying a glorious Autumn day in the garden, busily pruning my hardy fuchsias with my 24p secateurs, and thinking to myself what an excellent purchase they’d been. In short, I was feeling smug. Then disaster struck.

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For thousands of years mankind has been growing plants, for food, medicine and pleasure. Packets of seeds, potted up plants, pricked out seedlings are  commonplace and familiar to all of us. Yesterday I came upon something I’ve never seen before.

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Today I cut the grass with the big mower for what I hope will be the last time this year.  My last ‘cut’ in 2010 was 25th October and in 2009 27th October, so I’m there or there abouts.

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At the beginning of this week the weather forecasters warned of cold temperatures and a severe frost on Wednesday night, time for action then.

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Here’s a question. What can you buy for 48p these days? (That’s just short of 10 bob for those of you happier pre-decimal)

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I wrote some time ago of how I’d given up on my brassicas, my cauliflowers have been a disaster for the second year running, but today I’m pleased to report I harvested a cabbage.

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Todays tally . . . . . .

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It’s becoming a daily routine, walk around the field and see what bizarre or grizzly thing you can find that wasn’t there yesterday, and so it was today.

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As the title suggests, this post is all about getting the garden ready for winter, which, if it’s anything like last year, came early and severely, long before Xmas.

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The other day I wrote about the strange goings-on in our field, well today it got stranger and grizzlier.

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