September 2019

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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for

September 2018 diary entry

September seed sowing schedule

Details of what was sown/planted in September

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For September 2019 weather summary

September harvesting schedule

Details of our September harvest

1 - 8 September

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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

A small triumph

An afternoon at Clumber Park

Almost a Frost

Fed up of windy weather

Meteorological autumn begins

On the plot 8 September - video

Climbing French beans - the snakes -video

 

 

9 - 15 September

 

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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

Messing about in water

Summer harvests are waning

Weird sky and looking forward to spring cabbage

Autumn on the plot - video

Friday 13 on the plot - video

Painted dogs at feeding time - video

Tigers in the pool - video

Messing about in the water

 

16 - 22 September

 

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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

Apples and pears

A wet day at last

Flight

Odds and ends on the plot - video

Mid September birds' eye view of the plot - video

Harvesting apples and pears - video

 

23 - 30 September

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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

Better late then never

Wouldn't you just know it

Drought over - equal wettest day of the year

Last of potatoes and late strawberry runners - video

End of September Allotment Tour - video

 

 

 

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