I have dug round the apple tree and made that little bed bigger as I am going to be growing two climbing roses, rambling rector and something else can't remeber the name. They should be arriving next month. I have also hard pruned the tree as I won't be able to do that as easily once the roses get going.
My kale still tastes bitter which is a shame as last year it was gourgous we ate kale nearly every night. So I am going to try a different seed packet and variety next year. I will probebly use the rest of it in a Sarah Raven recipe for making crispy seaweed.
Fig has been fleeced.
These melon pictures were taken in September just haven't uploaded them earlier. I am pleased I actually grew them, but I am upset I picked them to early as they did not taste nice and also the variety was not the best, it is more like a cucumber than a melon.
Moving on. I have cleared all my buckets of the bee plants and replaced two with daffodils for the spring and the rest with strawberries. These are an experiment as I read in a gardeners old tails book if you plant strawberries in a bucket filled with the soil from around a pine tree you will have the sweetest tasting strawberries.
I have been contacted by the people who decide what is a wonder of the world and they would like to make a new wonder of the world. So my fence would be the 8th wonder of the world. But I declined the offer because I am worried that the amount of people coming to see it will ruin the lawn.
Cut down my asparagus.
Potatoes looking good for Chrimbo.
Kale is to big for its netting.
Brussels going strong.
Other kale looking small but good.
Flower bed cleared. I am going to move my peonies here maybe they will grow if they have a bit more room and light.
I have tied up my asparagus so not to blow in the wind to much and they are going brown slowly so I will be cutting them back soon.
All the cosmos and no squash.
My experiement potatoes for Christmas I have put some in the ground and some in a growbag in the greenhouse. Fingers crossed.
My beetroot is so big now. I think it will soon be chutney.
My squash havent worked out this year so I will be boasting about my kale. They are the most beautiful, tallest, healthiest, Chelsea perfect Kale you will ever see.
Elderberries and damsons I found while out foraging. Making Elderberry vinegar and damson and apple jam.
Out of all the gardens I have seen this year my cosmos is the tallest and in my opinion the best. It needs some dead heading though.
My glowing brassica netting.
Built the another section of my fence. This is nearly killing me but it looks so good!
If you saw the gardeners world which featured Kinghtshayes court, you would of seen the head gardener talking about this kale which is not on the seed lists any more, and can't get it anywhere else apart from here. Well guess who has it ME! oh yes I used my charm and asked one of the gardeners if I could have a cutting. Now there is a cottagers kale in Somerset.
When I was down in Devon I Visited the Garden House. This place is stunning completely relaxing it had a feeling like a zen garden because every section is separate but it all flows together harmoniously. Defiantly worth the visit.
I have kept my two courgette plants and got rid of 3 of my summer squash plants and only kept one. Next year I will only grow one courgette and no summer squash as my mother hasn't cooked with them, but it has been useful for when you go round to someone's house you always have something to bring round, I have had 10 squash a week with these plants. My winter squash is the worst I have ever had which is sad because I took all that time on making those tepees for them to climb up, but because of this drought this summer they obviously haven't done as well as usual. On the other hand the kale is outstanding!
My new dahlias I bought in Devon, I think the contrast between the dark leaves and bight pink flowers. 
I have tied up my asparagus because the wind is picking up and I don't want anything to happen to them.
This is a record on how far my melons have come along.
