Autumn is here

With slight reluctance, we picked all the tomatoes today and pulled up the plants.  We cannot complain, they have given up bucket loads of tomatoes - 16 different varieties. With our harvest of green tomatoes, we will make green tomato chutney - any other suggestions greatly received! 

We saved some seed from our favourite varieties... these include Rosella, Green Zebra, Red Zebra, German orange strawberry, Black crim, an unknown orange cherry and a yellow cherry! Last year, I had some success this way.  All I did was to spread the seeds on a piece of kitchen roll and left them to dry. When it was time to sow the seeds, I simply placed the sheet on a seed tray of compost and sprinkled some soil on top. I was delighted when loads of plants came up!  Fingers crossed for next year.  Having had so many varieties next to each other, I am sure that we may end up with some odd mixtures! Watch this space!

In preparation for pupils who are coming to the farm for their Youth Challenge, we made some bird box kits and made up some ourselves.  We had fun as we sawed, drilled holes and hammered in nails... not always in the right place!   Some laughs were had but in the end, we were pleased with the results.


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