The beginning of November, the weather overcast but (shouldn’t speak too soon) it’s still mild, for various outside jobs including picking brussels sprouts, digging up carrots and elsewhere adding compost.

Kalettes look ok (yet to be tasted), a few strawberry plants are in flower (!), while under cover, komatsuna are healthy and Florence fennel dug up and cleaned of soil.

Harvested cauliflowers, white watermelons and squash, again autumnal colour.