This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.

October 2016

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October 2015 diary entry

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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Spent the day on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

 

Trains and boats and planes

2

 

 

Picked Egremont Russet apples.

Harvested and froze remaining sweetcorn

Unexpected bonus

Very mild September

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Sorted apples for storage

Froze cauliflower

Cooked tomatoes for soup

 

 

Onions stored in the shed

Picked half of Invincible pears

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Harvested Laxtons Superb? apples

 

Laxton's Superb perhaps

A quick harvest

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Visited Slimbridge

WWT Slimbridge

Photo album

 

 

7

 

 

Visited Cleeve Abbey and West Somerset Railway Gala

A long weekend away

Cleve Abbey album

 

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Visited Holnicote  Estate and West Somerset Railway Gala

Holnicote Estate album

 

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Visited Tyntesfield

Tyntesfield album

 

10

 

 

Brassicas growing well

Larkspur not germinated and other annuals growing well.

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Picked a Fenella strawberry

Harvested squash

Harvested remaining pears and Golden Delicious apples

Back to a rather damp allotment

A small but welcome surprise

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Autumn onions are shooting

Blueberry leaves are turning red

 

 

 

 

13

 

 

Pears are ripening indoors

Not very rosy

Pear tree rust

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Rhododendron had flowers?

Garden raised bed and greenhouse supplying salads

First milestone in autumn

 

 

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Pickled some shallots

Tried to take some hoya cuttings

Brought basil seedlings indoors

Neglected allotment

 

 

 

Picked aubergines and sweet peppers from garden greenhouse

 

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Tidied up shallots

Picked Queen Cox apples

Picked first quince

A small but welcome surprise

Should have seen it coming

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Picked more quince and stewed

Harvested some chives for freezing

A look around the plot

Not every pear shaped fruit is a pear

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Froze chives

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Tidied chives and rest of blackberry border

Burned rubbish from clearance project

A late evening finish on the plot

A dry October means tidying up

 

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Picked more quince

Tidied compost and bed adjoining

An annual affair

A look around the plot

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Pruned the tayberry

Cleared plot tomatoes

Generally tidied up

One day I WILL come out on top

 

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First swede

Just in case you missed it

 

 

 

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Still harvesting salad from the garden.

Meagre pickings

 

 

 

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Visited Richmond Castle

Photo album of Richmond Castle

 

 

 

Visited Beamish

Catching up

Beamish Museum - County Durham

 

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Visited North Yorkshire Moors

 

 

 

 

 

Picked more salad including a fruit from a self sown weed

Medlar fruits

 

 

 

 

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Continued tidying and had a bonfire

Moved chrysanthemums from outdoors into creates in the plot greenhouse

A lovely day to end the month

 

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