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