Merry November

Regular readers will know that November is not my favourite month. This year I am going to try and overcome my Novemberitis, partly helped by having reduced my working hours in the summer so that I can make a point of having more time outside in daylight to fight off the winter gloom. November started well yesterday with a whole day in the sunshine in the garden. Mostly I was hacking things back and digging things up. While down on my knees hauling grass out of my raised beds, I found lots of lovely little violas, self-seeded everywhere. I left them to continue providing winter joy. I cut down most of the runner bean foliage, leaving the sweet peas which are still flowering. These are ‘ice cream’ And ‘kingfisher’ And the rainbow chard which is growing up between the bean poles. The apples keep coming. The Red Falstaff apples all fell off the tree in the last day or two. They are small but sweet: and we are working our way through the pears. There’s one still on the tree, waiting to…

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