Pembroke Pocket Garden

Saturday 8th October, beginning to prepare for next year! Seeds are ripening all over the garden.

Radish seeds? These are nearly ready to gather.

Fennel seeds: don't eat these unless you really love the taste of aniseed!

All the ripe, dry seed heads were gathered and stored for the winter.

Mint seed heads.

Plenty more mint seeds still to ripen.

Basil seeds need to be gathered up....

...although bees are still pollinating some of them!

Strawberry runners were pegged out in pots of soil-based compost. Once the runners have rooted in to the pots they can be cut from the mother plant and moved to the greenhouse for the winter.

We have a number of varieties of strawberries. Hope they all do well next year!

Some have taken root and have been moved in to the greenhouse already.

Today began with an unexpected visit from some scandavian journalists who were interested in seeing what the youth in this area are up to, following the riots of the last few days...

Here's Patrick, our youth club director, speaking with them.

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Besides the swedish reporters, the session began like most others.... with watering! 

The gardeners then put some organic fertiliser on the fruiting plants, such as this yellow plum tomato...

And this cucumber...isn't it getting big?

Some of my plants are now beginning to produce seeds, like this nasturcium:

And this sunflower will soon be producing seeds too..

After attending the capital growth training this weekend (http://www.capitalgrowth.org/training/) Shelagh will be able to share new knowledge on how to collect seeds from me...

Other work that went on today included sieving:

And experimenting with exterior decoration!