Putting the garden to bed

The fertile summer seems such a long time ago now...............however we keep trying to put the garden to bed for the winter, and it keeps getting up again and asking for drinks of water. We picked the last tomatoes in November, and the last wood strawberries a couple of weeks ago. The autumn tidy hasn't really happened because so many things hadn't finished flowering or fruiting yet, it was hard to clear the nasturtiums when they still had flowers but they had gone so wild that they covered half the lawn and made the grass go all yellow. As a concession to alleged colder weather I've moved some of the alleged tender herbs nearer the back door, but only the ginger mint has died back. The eau-de-cologne mint and spearmint stolen from the Iona herb garden look extremely healthy and the pineapple
mint also flourishes.
Unfortunately Carrie got a bit over-excited with the tidying and tidied the baby kale plants into the compost heap, the lone survivor is battling its way up in the veggie bed and I've put in some winter salad so it doesn't feel too lonely. Having done nothing through the summer, the chervil has decided to come up now, and we are still picking fresh dill for our smoked salmon linguine - delicious! However the year has turned, the nights will be lightening, and it will be nice soon not to have to wear a head torch to go out and pick the herbs for dinner............