Golden showers

Quick trip to the plot for leaves for lunch. The cooking greens are all gone except for transplanted and seedling kale, but there is still salad and herbs to tide us over. No one else there in the rain, but something wonderful about watching the golden leaves swirl around in the wet wind on your own. No sign yet of the new growth under the poly-tunnel, maybe we really were too late? Will watch and wish anyway. But lots of new shoots from the green manure making its presense felt in the muck. Too early to say for sure, but suspect it's the clover (though maybe the tares?). Either way it warmed me in the wet to see so many signs of fresh life. Picked chicory, red salad bowl, chervil, mizuna and sorrel and walked home via the French Market at Belsize Park to pick up cheese for superior sandwiches. Got home soaked but satisfied. Time to start planning winter chores with Howard when he is back (today, I think), but what winter work are you all doing? Any plans for new planting and what are your favourite seed catalogues (mine are piling up by the bed)? Oh, and happy belated Halloween, by the way. First of November, already, who would have thought...