{"id":19950,"date":"2023-10-14T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2022\/?p=19950"},"modified":"2023-10-16T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:21:30","slug":"we-can-no-longer-deny-it-autumn-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2022\/susan\/we-can-no-longer-deny-it-autumn-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"We can no longer deny it – autumn is here"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It’s been a very mixed week weatherwise. We have gone from summery and warm one day to rather wintery the day after. We have also had quite a bit of rain, in fact, we were rained off again when working at the allotment.<\/p>

We’ve managed more clearing and digging over beds, although the rain has meant that the soil is fast approaching the too wet to dig stage. At the moment it is just on the very edge so we are trying to get as much done as possible. We’ve done well and I think we have actually managed to get more done than usual due to having an early start. There are only a handful of beds still to be tackled. The advantage of setting out separate beds means that you can target a specific bed and then feel that you have made progress.<\/p>

As well as preparing beds for next year, I actually did a little planting. We had some small sweet William plants languishing in modules which we should really have planted out earlier.<\/p>

The plan was to remove this year’s sweet William plants and replace them with new ones. This plan changed for a couple of reasons. Firstly this year’s plants seemed as though they would last for another year and secondly not enough seeds had germinated to produce enough plants to fill the bed.<\/p>

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We changed to plan B. I cleared the bed where annual flowers had died off and planted the sweet Williams around the edge. The space in the middle will be free for sowing next year’s annual flowers. That is of course unless we end up with a plan C.<\/p>

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At the beginning of the week, we harvested a few spring onions. \"\"<\/p>

At the end of the week we pulled up the rest before they become unusable. We also picked a few Invincible pears and a few dahlias. The dahlias may well be our last if we get a frost.<\/p>

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We also harvested a few tomatoes from the allotment greenhouse. The tomatoes have done well this year.<\/p>

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Our main harvest was more carrots from the second carrot bed. We usually only sow one bed of carrots but the first lot didn’t appear to be germinating. Anyway you can’t have too many carrots can you?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We have made a similar miscalculation with the garlic. We planted a row of cloves saved from this year’s crop which just didn’t appear to be making any effort despite the onions that were planted at the same time shooting well.<\/p>

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We decided to buy more bulbs to plant and – you’ve guessed it\u00a0 – no sooner had we planted the second lot of cloves, than the first lot sprouted.<\/p>

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The second planting produced shoots very quickly, Maybe the cloves were were just waiting for the time to be right. At least we should be well protected from vampires.<\/p>

We had our usual walks around Temple Newsam and Nostell.\u00a0<\/p>

We wandered around the garden at Temple Newsam.<\/p>

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Martyn, popped into the greenhouse whilst I stayed outside with Ruby. Ruby was dying to follow Martyn for a look around. She loves exploring new places and finds doorways and gateways very tempting, but we had to explain to her that dogs were not allowed.\u00a0<\/p>

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Martyn took some photos so Ruby and I could see what we had missed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Outside in the parkland the green colouring is fading.<\/p>

A video of our walk around Temple Newsam is posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At Nostell, we only saw one adult swan. The lake flows into the garden so the other adult was probably there but I wonder whether the young birds have set off to join flocks of non breeding swans at another location. We couldn’t check out the garden as it is another area where Ruby isn’t allowed. It’s all rather puzzling as dogs are allowed in some NT garden areas but not others. It seems down to each individual property’s choice.<\/p>

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The black headed gulls have now flocked to the lake and squabble noisily.<\/p>

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Finally, some of last week’s meals.<\/p>

I made a bean bolognese<\/a> that used some carrots, onion, garlic and parsley.<\/p>

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Another meal was a turkey stir fry<\/a> that used spring onions, peppers and carrots.<\/p>

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That’s all for this week.<\/p>

As always until next time stay safe and well.<\/p>

Again I am joining Dave at the Harvest Monday<\/a> post on his Our Happy Acres blog<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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