Putting the garden to bed!

Now is the time when we clear the raised beds of most of the summer crops, harvest the autumn produce, do a general tidy up and then mulch the beds with cardboard, grass clippings and Ecosci (green waste compost)  for the winter to keep them healthy and as weed free as possible until next spring.
There has been far less to store this year than last year! Neil has yet to lift the last 2 varieties of the main crop potatoes, but being blight resistant Sarpo varieties they are looking good and we hope to have a good amount to store over winter!
Tomatoes are still struggling in this cold wet weather, and we are unlikely to have many apples for pressing into juice as the best will be stored in the specially made racks in the shed. We are still picking raspberries which have been quite good and the figs are a treat at this time of year too.
Planning to make more use of the polytunnels next year as a back up against the possibility of another poor summer. Nothing's easy!!