Veggie Gardens Winding Down

The veggie gardens 1 & 2 have done their job and are being cleaned and planted with green manure and I am accepting that this the next to last step before the winter.
Oh, there are still beans, carrots, leaf veg, toms, blueberries and corn still producing, but the end is in sight.
Here's how the plots are looking now:

The "old" veggie plot, Veggie Plot 1--Pea vines stripped from their rack, braccisas pulled up and the ground min-tilled, raked and planted with Phacelia (a green manure). The other half of the old plot in the distance shows the climbing courgettes and the 2nd year strawbs which I had cut back to ground level a few weeks ago.

Here are leeks and carrots on the foreground and some of the runner beans in the distance.

The second planting of purslain. (I have already harvested from it once)

Here are more shots of the inside of the old plot's greenhouse and the tom crop--still going strong. These shots were taken after yesterday's harvest. These plants are the cordon, 'Ferline'.



Veggie garden 2 has been cleaned as much as possible (crops are still yielding) and planted with new strawb plants and green manure.
A view from the entrance shows sweet corn on the left and Perpetual spinach along the fence to the right. Ther black 'Dalek' is the small compost bin for this garden's compostable waste. A gift from a very dear friend.

Looking back towards the entrance from the far end. Green manure and courgettes in the foreground and corn at the far end.

The second corn crop, "Extra Sweet", Swiss chard and Beets.

 

Looks like you grow more in your short summer than we do with our long ones. There's at least another month of growing here, maybe more, depends on how October behaves.

 

I know our summer here went way too fast. another week and half and the kids are in school. We'll only have through sept for any good weather. I'm hoping to get a good crop of toms yet-though I did see one starting to get some red, so there still hope. BTW, SJoerd, what is the 3rd pict of purslain? I'm not familiar with it.

 

You've tidied up well. The plot looks so inviting, my hands started to itch looking at all that empty space. You'll be processing tomatoes for the entire next month too by the look of things.

 

Hiyah Petunia...
Purslain (Portulaca oleracea--syn. Portulaca sativa) is an old-fashioned veggie here. You can eat it in soup, salad, or cook it with cream sauce. There are lots of different recipes

 

Heh heh heh Toni...glad you like the Dalek. It works like a charm.
The compost bin that I have on the old lottie is self-made and works wvery well too.
Who needs a Doctor to compost, right?

 

Your tomatoes look wonderful. We had a cool wet season until recently, and now we haven't had rain for weeks. My tomatoes are struggling, although I did manage to have a few BLT sandwiches (YUM!). I doubt that any of my pumpkins or gourds will amount to much due to the lack of rain. Not ready for fall...