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October 2019
Details of what was sown/planted in October
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 6 October
Another wet and miserable week
Cleared climbing beans and sweet corn
Some harvesting
Leaves falling quickly
Visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park
After a wet September October starts with a cold spell
On the plot - clearing and harvesting - video
Drake's Lunchtime - Amur Leopard - video
7 - 13 October
Too wet to do much gardening
Dug up sweet corn roots
Cleared sweet peas and squash
Cut back cobnuts and started clearing honeyberry bed
Visited Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales.
Cold and wet first week of October
Gardening activities have stopped
The honeyberries have to go - video
A garden spider spins its web - video
Our experiences bean testing compost - video
Princess Elizabeth - steaming up and down Settle to Carlisle line - video
14 - 20 October
Still very wet
Started tidying stored onions
Lifted late planted onion sets
Planted up spring bulb in pots and in garden
Pruned camella and chamomeles
Visit from Richard stead Radio Leeds
Wet and soggy allotment - video
Birds' eye view - mid October - video
21 - 27 October
Uncovered some beds on allotment
Dug over one bed but still wet
Started to reclaim the old strawberry bed
Sowed Perpetual spinach in plot greenhouse
Afternoon at Potteric Carr
Summer tubs placed in greenhouse for winter
Non-stop rain for over 24 hours
A break in the weather - video
28 - 31 October
Harvested first parsnips
Dug a root of oca - disappointing
Frost blackened dahlias, French beans and oca
Detached strawberry runners and popped in greenhouse
Visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park
October 2019 plot tour -video