October 2021
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 10 October
Picked, cooked and froze quince
Picked apples
Picked Albion strawberries
Visited Clumber Park
Weeded Sweet Williams
Cleared and prepared beds for winter
Cleared tomatoes from plot greenhouse
Dug some Apache potatoes from the old strawberry bed
Uncovered garlic and overwintering onions
Last of mega harvests
Our method of cooking and preparing quinces – video
Picking the last autumn fruits – video
11 - 17 October
Visited Temple Newsam and Nostell Priory
Swans losing their brown juvenile feathers
More digging and bed covering
Dug first leeks
Pruned summer fruiting raspberries
Dahlias hanging on
We have leeks.
Nostell’s cygnets are turning into swans
Nostell swans – video
There’s plenty of digging and clearing to do on the plot – video
18 - 24 October
Continued tidying and digging beds on the plot
Cut back the blackberry
Visited Nostell
A race against winter weather
Digging our first leeks – video
More late strawberries and some tidying up – video
25 - 31 October
Planted up pstio tubs
Cut back magnolia
Visited Nostell