No update in September, the weather was so poor up until the middle of the month that I didn't really feel like putting my feelings into words - it would hardly have made good reading.

Still, after the rains ended we managed to catch up with a lot, all the onions finally dried out and are now heaped on the barn floor awaiting sorting before being stored in pallet bins, the squash are all in, the butternuts ripening in the glasshouse and the rest already stored in the barn. We've just about finished harvesting all the potatoes - the Remarka and Desiree are in, and we'll hopefully get the Sante and the last of the Pink Fir up next week. Unfortunately this year we've seen a fair bit of blight affecting some of the tubers, and so we're going to have to be constantly checking our stored potatoes and removing any rotting ones that we find which is quite a shame as this is the largest yield we've had in quite a few years.

Blight has also hit the glasshouse tomatoes in a few areas, so we've removed the affected plants. The plants that are left have now lost most of their remaining leaves as we head into autumn so it will only be a few more weeks until we pull out the plants and get it ready for some winter salads. We have a third of a tunnel with some established salad mix so it won't be long before this is ready, another tunnel is full of rows of tiny carrot seedlings, and next week we will get a few other tunnels planted with lettuce and spinach to provide us with some nice leaves during the winter.