Re: meatloaf, potato salad, tuna caserole, tomatoes, beans

In article <ehd00l-vk21.ln1@anthive.com>,
songbird@anthive.com says...

 
  all good.
 
  we have a few tomatoes just ripened after being picked
a month ago.

  We've just eaten the last of ours; ditto the peppers and
aubergines. I've got enough stored potatoes left to last
until the end of November.

In the garden, I still have leeks, kale, and sprouts; all
of them  will stand and be picked  all winter. I don't
start harvesting till after the first frost.

 In the freezer, I still have our own plums, gooseberries
and black currants and chillies. We've already eaten all
the peas, beans and mange-tout. I juiced the last of the
apples. I grow a lot of annual flowers among the veg to
attract pollinators/ distract the deer; just finished
harvesting their seeds for next year, and pulling out  the
old plants to compost.

  I've bought and planted more tulips down the edges of
the veg beds. I grow them for cutting for the house. Some
of them will flower again in later years, some are
shortlived. So planting more and different ones every year
makes sense. Yes it does. OK, I'm addicted to tulips. 
Nobody ever died of tulips.

   Just emptying the compost bins to move them for next
year. In winter I cover the veg beds in a heavy mulch of 
compost and/or seaweed/ fallen leaves/horse manure. Worms
will dig it all in.

   Jobs to do;  harvest fresh parsley and freeze it. Trim
back the herb garden. Tidy the garden shed. Wash the
greenhouse inside.

    Janet  UK