If you think that the season is all over then you are wrong. We are just getting started. The mild autumn means that we can really get an early start for improved crops for the early start of next year.
Jobs
Clear as much of your ground as possible. Don’t leave any hidey holes for slugs and pests to overwinter. Old beans can be kept for drying to give you some free seed or used in the kitchen. It is a good time to dig or rotavate whilst there is not too much moisture in the soil and it is still very friable. That’s the hard bit done, now for the pleasure.
Planting – It is getting to a perfect time for planting the following.
Some of the sowings will benefit from a covering of fleece and you know where you can get it cheaply
Finally the seed catalogues are dropping through the door. These are best perused with a glass of wine or beer. Suttons are selling an exciting dwarf mulberry.
Happy Gardening
Sweet Pea
- Broad Beans – buy from the Chinnor Allotments and Garden Association (CAGA) shed
- Onions, garlic and shallots as sets (nearest for sale is Haddenham)
- Chard and Perpetual Beet – buy from the shed
- Last sowings of lettuce such as Winter Density – buy from the shed
Some of the sowings will benefit from a covering of fleece and you know where you can get it cheaply
Finally the seed catalogues are dropping through the door. These are best perused with a glass of wine or beer. Suttons are selling an exciting dwarf mulberry.
Happy Gardening
Sweet Pea
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