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    Summer’s Last Hurrah

    Aug 10, 2022 5 minutes
    WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    SUSSIE BELL

    September is a golden month in the vegetable garden. With crops slowing down, there isn’t the same pressure to keep up with the harvest as there is earlier in the year, nor is there urgent, constant watering to attend to. This is the month in which things tick along, allowing time to savour the last weeks of the formal growing season. Tomatoes continue to ripen; there may still be some sweetcorn to pick; courgettes slow down although, if they are fed and watered, they will still have a few weeks of life left in them; and chard and spinach may well have leaves worthy of picking before they set seed.

    In the Kitchen Garden at Thyme near Southrop in Gloucestershire, head gardener Victoria Bowsher is enjoying the gentler

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