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September 2019
For September 2019 weather summary
Details of our September harvest
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 - 8 September
Visit to Clumber Park
Tidying up allotment beds
Lifted Kestrel, Cara, sarpo Mire and rest of Vivaldi
Harvested spring onions, broccoli and Uchiki Kuri squash
On the plot 8 September - video
Climbing French beans - the snakes - video
9 - 15 September
Bought a selection of bulbs and over wintering onion sets
Visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Pruned black raspberry and tayberry
Planted over wintering onions
Sowed hardy annuals
Trimmed plum trees
Transplanted spring cabbage
Picked bunches of grapes from garden greenhouse
Planted tete a tete daffodils in garden and pots
Tidying up in garden and on the plot
Weird sky and looking forward to spring cabbage
Painted dogs at feeding time - video
16 - 22 September
Visited the National Bird of Prey Centre at Helmsley North Yorkshire
Bought more tulip bulbs
Harvested apples, pears and squash
More tidying on the allotment
Large white butterfly caterpillars removed from brassicas
Odds and ends on the plot - video
Mid September birds' eye view of the plot - video
Harvesting apples and pears - video
22 - 30 September
Lifted remaining potatoes
Potted up strawberry runners
More clearing and tidying on the allotment
Lots of rain
Spent a couple of days at North Yorkshire Moons railway gala
Drought over - equal wettest day of the year
Last of potatoes and late strawberry runners - video
End of September Allotment Tour - video