Tomatoes, our staple
A new tiny snail, I haven’t seen before.
A gentle change
The Acer drops seeds and the seedling are being potted up.
Roses still blooming
Looking up
Autumn colour
Delicate semi-shade plants
In Victoria known as Virginian Creeper, in Tasmania known as Boston Ivy. These creepers are growing on the water tanks.
Chilli plant in front of zucchini
Verbena, still a few jewels to be found.
Baby cyclamen, treasures .to be nurtured
Finally, figs for the birds and us. Thanks for your visit, Barbara
Barbara Pyett 
Being constricted now with no yard, greatly enjoyed the vicarious pleasure of your garden, Barbara: Beautifully bursting with life.
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I’m so pleased you enjoyed a breath of fresh air in our garden O. Babe! ❤
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Lovely photos all. I adore ornamental peppers (chiles) in the garden. Such sturdy little plants and such color!
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Barbara, we hardly use them for cooking, so apart from those given away, I string them up for decoration in the kitchen! I love their colour. Thanks for your visit!!
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Oh yes, it’s that time of year — time to make passata! We’ve just managed to find some old bricks (who would have thought THAT could be so difficult!) so that we can balance the 44-gallon drum within which the bottles of tomato passata will cook. We build a fire under the drum and cook the filled bottles for 3-4 hours, then leave to cool down (another 5-6 hours) — et voila!
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Pauline, I admire your spirit. It is a thrill to preserve the produce grown. Sounds as if you’re enterprising doing it outdoors. I freeze some, but also make relish and chutney. Love to see it all bottled. Good luck with yours!
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Well, the advantage of doing it this way is that one can stack about four rows of bottles inside the drum, giving a total of about 30-40 bottles in total in one batch, Barbara. Worth the effort, we think 🙂
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Sounds a great way to do it. My mother had an electric outfit that fitted only about 8-10 bottles? She was forever preparing jars and steaming them in this tin contraption. From memory, that took hours too. I guess you have to stand by to top up the water with so many bottles in there. Wonderful to get it done in one hit. 🙂 I have just skinned 8 kg of tomatoes for relish today. It will stand over night and cook tomorrow.
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The colours are really beautiful , it is possible to grow acer here in Ireland i will be putting one in the front garden and I will post a pic as soon as the grass is cut there, and we have some some colour. Happy days . Kathy.
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You must have lots of deciduous trees to choose from Kathy. I’m sure you will enjoy an acer though amongst the many trees you choose. Shall watch with interest! 🙂
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Fabulous pictures. I dream of a crop of tomatoes like that. I have been potting on my acer seedlings, I’m not sure what i will do with them when they grow up, but some of them look quite promising.
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Yes Hilary, I can’t resist potting the acer seedlings. I’ve given many away, and I guess there’s always a fete if no one wants them. I have quite a few around the garden growing already. I hope your tomatoes are as productive as mine have been. It’s been a good season, apart from being dry.
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Your garden is always lovely xx
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Thank you Elaine! 🙂
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Beautiful bounty. Lovely to see the garden in these late stages.
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Thanks Maggie, you have this to look forward to! 🙂
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Looks wonderful.
That’s a very posh snail, looks as if it belongs in a rock pool. Guess it does same damage as more common varieties.
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Yes bmpermie, I thought it looked like a water snail too! Strange I’ve never seen them before this year. 🙂
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Great garden. The Virginia creeper here hasn’t gone red yet. I am surprised you managed to get cyclamen flowering at this time of the year. Do you get frost? The acer is proof you do live in a tempered climate. Great crop of tomatoes. It remembers me when still on the farm we had a large home made pizza oven outside near the chooks, in which, after we made the pizzas we would bake bread and next day when the oven was still warm, dry out our home grown tomatoes. We used to bottle them in olive oil with basil. Lovely.
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Good to hear about your time on the farm. Sounds wonderful! The cyclamen flower in the spring as well as the autumn. The plants we brought from Tasmania. Yes, it is temperate here, with few mild frosts. We don’t use the pizza oven as you can see it’s totally overgrown now.
When we go, someone could resurrect it! Love the sound of those bottled dried tomatoes.. 🙂
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