Monty is in his pumpkin patch and is harvesting them. They store really well, they taste good and they're fantastic winter food, so he wants to make the most of what he's got. He recommends that when you're harvesting them it is important to cut them, not yank them, and also to keep a good piece of stem.
A few weeks ago Monty cut all the leaves off the pumpkins and a viewer from Zimbabwe called Galia Arab wrote in to say that they cooked the foliage and ate it as you do spinach, and it's scrummy and have tons of iron.
Monty opens the programme with the menu sequence and, now that we're truly in the throes of autumn, Monty turns his attention to collecting fallen leaves. Monty regards these as a free harvest and shows us different ways to make leaf mould. Leaf mould is different to compost. Compost is very ric...
Monty is deciding what needs keeping, what needs throwing out and what needs cutting back. Monty takes out the cosmos as it's done all it can and cuts back the lysimachia. All the buddleias have done well. and have gone on flowering and flowering, and still going, so Monty's not going to cut th...
