TeamChallis has ended our roaming for the summer, we are now confined to Bristol to await the arrival of the new team member. So this weekend we were at home. First thing on Saturday we nipped out to the shops to get Fidget some new shoes. She has the same high instep as her Daddy and her Mummy's big feet as she is now a size 7. The high instep means that all the pretty mary-janes cause her feet to bulge out, and she couldn't get her feet into boots, so we were left with only 1 type of shoe that is a pretty toxic shade of pink, so we went for that, but somewhat reluctantly. Fidget didn't seem to mind and was tearing around the shop. We bought a few other things that I need for my hospital bag etc. then went back home.


M got stuck-in in the garden, our aim this weekend was to harvest as much as possible, then get beds weeded and covered up so we don't need to worry about them over the winter. Fidget gave a hand with digging up the potatoes.
The garden is looking pretty with some of the flowers I grew from seed (dahlias and cosmos) looking lovely.

We got up the onions, all the garlic and a shedload of potatoes.

In the greenhouse we are getting lovely tomatoes (little cherry ones - yellow, orange and red), plus a variety of peppers including jalapenos (the dark green ones), and also cape gooseberries. I haven't grown cape gooseberries before, and this year bought a plant on a whim, but it has done well and is producing a good amount of fruit.

We also dug up all the beetroot, some of which was huge. M needed a barrow to put it all in. We decided to make some beetroot and apple relish with it, along with some pickled beetroot. So M and Fidget picked some of the cooking apples...

It was a really nice day for pottering around...

Finally we uncovered the brassica bed to find that the red cabbage that I thought had been attacked and done for by various beasties actually had some good heads...

woo hoo!

On Sunday, M did a lovely Sunday roast that we all enjoyed, his chicken and roast potatoes were cooked to perfection. We also had our first sweetcorn of the season, which was Fidget's favourite thing and she ate first, we had to remove the cob to prevent her chomping right through the lot!!