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October seed sowing schedule
Details of what was sown/planted in October

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October harvesting schedule
Details of our October harvest

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Sowed salad leaves, radish and spring onions in the garden greenhouse
Planted daffodil, crocus, tulip, iris and fritillary bulbs.
Picked Conference pears

Visited Geoff Hamilton's Barnsdale Gardens

A change at last - Barnsdale

Geoff Hamilton's Barnsdale

More photos

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Visited steam gala at Great Central Railway

Picked Fiesta and Egremont Russet apples from plot

Cleared tomatoes from plot greenhouse
An apple a day

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Cleared peppers and aubergines from garden greenhouse and picked cherry tomatoes
Picked kiwi berries - Issai

Turned out wet - clearing garden greenhouse

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Tree following - medlar

Strimmed grass
Harvested squash and the few apples in the small Queen Cox tree

A final strim?

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Bought a miniature rose and a gloxinia pot plant for indoors

White Cloud - rose

Tidied and repotted half ofthge streptocarpuses

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Harvested Golden Delicious apples and pruned apple hedge.
Dug last lot of potatoes.
Apple harvest

Planted uo a couple of tubs for winter/spring display - bulbs, violas, skimmia, heathers and ivy

Winter pots

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Hostas flowering as leaves fade
Cutting back astrantias worked - we have a second flush of flowers

Autumn fungi

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More tidying of garden greenhouse and third salad grow bag prepared,

House spider convention is being held at our house

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Harvested quince, first lot of carrots and one and only pumpkin
Cleared climbing French and runner beans
Chrysanthemums moved into plot greenhouse.
Carrot trials

A dull and dreary weekend - quince harvest

We have little nut tree

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At last some sunshine for our late veggies

New red and yellow border is still flowering

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Sowed winter salad in third bag
Some tender plants including pelargoniums

Just flowers

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Raised bed salad bat still producing fresh salad leaves,
Herbs given protection in cold frame and greenhouse

Stored apples are keeping the fruit bowl well stocked.
Grapes trained on shed wall are small but sweet and ripe

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Cabbages doing well
Still some flower colour on the plot

Still harvesting salad leaves from the salad bar and cherry tomatoes from outdoors on the plot
A decent weekend after a wet start

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Harvested first parsnips
Picked small pears from Invincible - second late flowering
Picked grapes growing on the side of the shed
Six years of weather blogs and some harvesting

Native ox-eyed daisies are providing surprisingly good cut flowers
Plot lines - photos from the plot
Late sown peas are flowering and have also set some pods.

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Bought another pot mum which will be added to our outdoor collection next year.
Passion flower still flowering,
It's very wet

Acer turning red
Red and yellow bed still has lots of flower

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Medlar leaves turning colour