October 2023 Video Diary

30 October 2023

A spooky Fountains Abbey by floodlight with Ruby

We visited the World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal to see the historic abbey floodlit. We arrived in the early afternoon to take some pictures and video as well as give Ruby a good walk. It was a misty day not really all that good for photography.

21 October 2023

Storm Babet brings a record amount of rain

Saturday saw storm Babet bring us a record amount of rainfall. This is based on my weather station data that I started in 2010

21 October 2023

A walk at Nostell Priory before storm Babet

We took Ruby for a walk at Nostel Priory on Thursday before the imminent arrival of storm Babet on Friday. Some of the paths were already very wet and we had to make a few detours with Ruby so she didn’t get too muddy.

21 October 2023

Winter garlic catchers us out – winter shallots fail to germinate and a plot update

 

You can never be sure about some things when you’re gardening. As soon as we decided our garlic wasn’t going to germinate and bought some new bulbs germination began. Still, if it all grows we’ll have lots of garlic.

16 October 2023

Lifting our reserve carrots and planting out sweet Williams

We’ve been busy digging over beds and generally tidying up at the allotment on our last few visits. For a change, we did some planting for next year and harvested our reserve bed of carrots.

14 October 2023

A walk at Temple Newsam with Ruby

On a lovely sunny and warm afternoon we took Ruby for a walk at Temple Newsam. There are a few clips taken inside the large greenhouse situated in the walled garden. Ruby is not allowed in the greenhouse. It didn’t bother Ruby as long as she got a game of fetch.

09 October 2023

Lifting carrots for winter storage and some wildlife

It’s the time of year for us to lift our carrots and store them in tubs of compost over winter in the garden greenhouse. Left in the ground they will either rot or be eaten by slugs or suffer from a combination of both. This is our first bed of carrots to be lifted. I’ll lift the second batch once today’s carrots have been sorted out.