While Mum was at work, Elizabeth and Dad made a snow dog.

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Harvested the last one - since there may soon come night frosts.

This one weighed in at 8.1kg.

The last three:

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Pumpkins 3 and 4 today - the plants had finally given up - so no more ripening outside.

3 weighed in at 2.105kg and #4 at 2.215kg. The last one - still on the plant - is the largest - looking forward to getting it on the scales :)

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Second pumpkin harvested today. This one weighed in at 3.535kg.

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We picked the first pumpkin tonight. 1.605kg

Made pumpkin and potato soup - tasted great :)

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And so the last apple tree is pruned :)

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Finally the new lawn has grown enough to mow. And we can use it as a garden :)

As well as mowing, the other half the garden has been prepared, chalked and had grass seed put down - so - in a few weeks the lawn should cover both halves.

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Tomatos - going well. Cucumbers - just repotted from 3" to 5" pots - hopefully planting both of these out within the month. Cauliflower? Well - I have no idea what they're supposed to look like but at the moment they look like giant cress.

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This year we'll see if we can get the cucumbers (F1 burpless tasty green) to stay healthy and not just get leggy/stringy and die.

Found a link that says not to pluck the mail flowers and to remove the main stem once 6 leaves have grown.

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12 onions in (from seed during the week) and 35 sweetcorn plants sown today (again from seed). Digging over the plot has started - but still lots of old thick treeroots to remove. It should be finished in time for planting out though.

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