Back to blogging organically

I am sorry for not posting here regularly of late. I've been a very naughty boy and have just been out enjoying my garden rather than writing about it!! :)
The tomato harvest has been great and it is still going well, and although it has calmed down from the boomer days when I was picking 10-15 tomatoes a day I am still getting three or four good sweet toms every day.
On the not so great side I have been feeding a wonderful crop of cabbage white butterflies with my broccoli. I seem to have finally got on top of them with repeated sprays of rhubarb leaf and garlic but the broccoli plants have great stems and... er that's about it. Never mind, I have planted some more seeds and I hope that these will keep me in greens in the early spring before the caterpillars return. I have also planted lots of spinach which should be ready during the winter, Chinese cabbage (hopefully these will not bolt to seed at this time of year).
My cucumbers gave up the ghost a week or so ago. I think they did not appreciate being close to my tomatoes despite cropping OK they have died before many of my friends' plants have. Next year I will separate them and see what happens.
I am still getting a few strawberries too which seems like a very long season to me. Next year I will plant lots more so that I don't just get a couple of fruit at a time. The kids have loved helping themselves but I would also like to have a few proper feeds on them.
It's autumn here now so I am gearing up for winter crops like carrot, parsnip and the greens that I mentioned. My Borlotti beans are almost ready and once they are harvested I will cut off the stems and leave the roots in the ground to nourish my winter greens.
My compost has worked really well this summer and almost everything I have cut or trimmed has rotted down great. In fact I have had to start a second heap because I can't use it fast enough! The worm farm is also producing lots of nutritious worm casts now that I have finally persuaded the whole family to put food scraps in my collection box.
Looking forward to the next few weeks I expect to harvest pumpkin, tomatoes, onions, basil, oregano, beans, lettuce, potatoes and mint. That should keep me out of trouble with all the drying, cooking and storing that I will be doing.
Oh by the way my parsley seeded this year so I have planted lots of seeds around the place as apparently it is unpleasant to sandflies. I just hope that all of it comes up in time for me to be sitting outside next spring. Happy gardening:)