Autumnal changes in the garden

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The changes in the garden are now more apparent and we have already harvested and completely dug up loads of our vegetables. The colder nights have meant the flowers and trees are beginning to yellow and lose their leaves. We have already started bringing in some of the very tender plants. Many others need potting up and putting in the greenhouse - and will have to take their chances with the winter weather.

We will have to heat the greenhouse on really cold nights (which we always used to do). Last winter we didn't and it was so cold we lost most of our plants.

Sad though it is, this year we are lifting early as once it starts to get too wet and windy it becomes an unpleasant task. The deadly cactus' are back in their box - they need the protective sides or rather, I DO! as in previous years I have suffered the pain of a falling cactus - getting the needles out of skin isn't pleasant!