Much of the summer harvest is done and gone now, like zucchini, cucumber (almost, anyway) and tomatoes; despite this, I still manage to walk out my back door every day and pick enough veg for dinner (yesterday it was baby squash, chard, celery and herbs). The allotment too is still yielding a regular small harvest of things such as beets and green beans.
Some of the harvest is an all-at-once job like the squash and corn; these are still on the plants, maturing away. I hope to get them in by the end of October, weather permitting.
There are a few plants just coming into their own now (the end of September!): achocha (a spikey little green fruit on a very vigorous vine) which has self seeded for years now; and the Lazy Housewife climbing beans, only just now producing pods. The other climbing beans have been producing all summer (a pretty purple variety), and both were sown and planted out at the same time. Well, better late than never I guess.
I am hopeful for a some autumn/early winter veg, looking promising now: the bulb fennel, parsnips, pak choy and black radish (a cooking radish). Also hoping for some spring onions, a few last kohl rabi, and some daikon radish--not quite as forward as the others, but we'll see.
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