Up the plot today at 9am.
I wanted to have a moment there to try and figure out what to do with the “new” area. Still none the wiser. I applied brushwood killer to the brambles and tree stump – fingers crossed. Why on earth the council did not do a proper job, Lord only knows.  The area was cut down a few weeks ago and already some of the brambles are 6″ long!
I took the climbing beans and their frames down – I know you are “supposed” to leave the bean roots in the ground so that the nitrogen nodules are there for next year – but mine are in the compost bin and a bag of fertliser will do the trick in 2019.
Back home I turned out a few more pots of potatoes – good results! The Maxine spuds are already converted to mashed potatoes and ready to freeze! The Ramos are drying ready for storing. Quite possibly the best potato for chips ever!!

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After the spuds I picked all the red large tomatoes ( Moneymaker and Stonors).
Washed, cut up, boiled down, blitzed, sieved, seasoned with a knob of butter and a few herbs and made in to tomato soup. 3kg of tomatoes made 4 lots of 500ml tubs of soup. One for tonight and three for freezing.