Chard Bright Lights

I recently cut back three everlasting sweetpea plants I had growing across a fence, and I discovered some overlooked chard plants that were growing underneath the masses of sweetpea greenery. I love the colours of Chard Bright Lights.

I planted the Chard seeds straight into the ground (as per instructions on the pack) back in May and they've survived an extremely large slug/snail population & are still growing well.

Variety: Chard Bright Lights, Mr Fothergill's, 150 seeds, £2.29

 

Chard Bright Lights



Young leaves can be eaten in salad; bigger leaves and stems can be steamed like spinach or I like to put them in casseroles and stews like cabbage.

Pumpkins n Halloween thoughts

Happy Halloween! 



 What would Halloween be without a pumpkin?

What would Autumn be without frost?

Where would we be without... leaves?  (besides Winter)

 

....or a little creativity? (ever see a pumpkin used for flowers?)

 

Enjoy your Halloween weekend & happy gardening...

Flowers Hit by Autumn Frosts

Frosted field and rooftop begin to defrost.

Frost again... this makes three in the past week; a mini frost on 20 Oct and two bigger frosts yesterday and this morning. Is this the end of my flowering annuals & perennials?? Time will tell....

Good news! The seed company came back to me and said I could keep the 10 extra seed packs with their compliments! (ref: 22 & 4 Oct blog)



Frosted cornflower looks sugar coated!

If only the green fly had frozen to death (but no)!



The spider webbed heather looks ready for Halloween.

Geraniums on their 2nd flower.

This light shaded aster flowers actually look better frosted!

The Calendula 'Orange King' may have given up their crown.

Sweetpea - I'm glad it's going (all green and no flowers).

The heat rising off the leaves which were left over night.