November 2021
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 07 November
Visited Nostell
Cut down tayberry
Had a bonfire on the allotment
Bonfire Night – taking the rough with the smooth
Bonfire Night at the allotment
Summerhouse storage as the weather gets colder
Bonfire Night at the allotment – video.
08 - 14 November
Lifted moolis and swede – no success with swede
Visited Temple Newsam and Nostell
More tidying of beds
Cut back cardoon
Getting to the root of the problem
Cardoons get the chop
Cardoons autumn cut back – video
What should moolis look like? – video
Ruby’s walk a Temple Newsam – video
Lifting dahlias for over winter – video
15 - 21 November
More tidying on the allotment
Cleared sweet corn
Dug Apache potatoes from old strawberry bed
Weeded onions and garlic
Harvested leeks and cabbage
Trimmed apple hedge
Sowed sweet peas gathered from last year’s plants
Little splashes of colour
Sweet pea experiment
22 - 30 November
More clearing and tidying of beds
Added protection to dahlia tubers
It snowed.
First air frost of autumn
Snow in November?
Models were correct – we got some snow.
Freezing cold end to November. Is it that unusual?
November’s weather details
Digging up the last potatoes – video
Snow – video