October 2022
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 09 October
Picked more quinces
Planted sweet Williams
Planted winter onion sets and garlic
More digging and preparing beds
Harvested kiwi berries
Pruned summer fruiting raspberries
Moved some strawberry plants from old strawberry bed
Mulched rhubarb with manure
Picked a cauliflower
Last planting for this year
Trying to beat the weather
10 - 16 October
Visited Nostell, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal deer park.
Ruby had a shower
Cygnets still on the lake at Nostell
Cleared tomato plants from garden and plot greenhouses
Picked cauliflower and courgettes,
Picked more quince and a cabbage
Picked dahlias
More winter preparation
October 2022 Video
17 - 23 October
A fairly wet week
Only one cygnets at Nostell
Pulled spring onions
Winter onions and garlic shooting on allotment
Tidied up cardoon
Picked first purple cauliflower
Has the window closed?
A proper wet day at last
October 2022 Videos
24 - 31 October
Visited Nostell
Dug first leeks
Harvested all the quince
Harvested cauliflowers
Still harvesting courgettes
Lots of rain but managed a little digging and clearing at the allotment
October 2022 Video
We had a little quince tree