October 2020
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 11 October
Tidied garden greenhouse – potted up lettuces
More tidying and clearing on the allotment
Visit to Walton Country Park
Picked two Conference pears from tree in the garden
Visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Survivors and casualties
Home and away
Lazy photography
A frosty morning – video
Preparing our home greenhouse for winter – video
Lots of digging and a bit of harvesting – video
Fishy Tale – video
12 - 18 October
Visited Nostell Priory
Visited Benningbrough Hall
Only visited the allotment to harvest as we were rained off
Cool October weather
Allotmenting on hold
Allotment update – video
19 - 25 October
Visited Fountains Abbey
More tidying at the allotment
Took down bean supports and stored in the greenhouse
Picked first Clapton cauliflowers which were very small.
Living under threat
Autumnal
We missed the showers
Fountains Abbey in floodlights – video
26 - 31 October
Very wet so didn’t go to the allotment or anywhere else.
What a gloomy week
Cool and wet October
A caulifliower dilemma – video