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October 2016
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Details of what was sown/planted in October
For October 2016 weather summary
Details of our October harvest
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Picked Egremont Russet apples.
Harvested and froze remaining sweetcorn
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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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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
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Autumn onions are shooting
Blueberry leaves are turning red
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Rhododendron had flowers?
Garden raised bed and greenhouse supplying salads
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Pickled some shallots
Tried to take some hoya cuttings
Brought basil seedlings indoors
Picked aubergines and sweet peppers from garden greenhouse
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Tidied up shallots
Picked Queen Cox apples
Picked first quince
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Picked more quince and stewed
Harvested some chives for freezing
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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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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