Bargain plants

Those bargains I bought months ago are still flowering like good 'uns. I've photographed a few of them today to show how, almost into October, they are still providing cheer in the garden. Although we planted our tomatoes and sweetcorn too late we have received bundles of beans, a good stash of potatoes, a bounty of artichokes and now a fuzz of green carrot tops which the chickens have been feasting on without my knowledge. It's completely our fault for letting them out of their run to enjoy the entire garden. Too late I discovered they had fallen foul (no pun intended) to the lure of the young leaves. In an afternoon they had nipped the tops out of all of them. They will grow back but I've had to criss cross bamboo over the area to keep the hens off it.