Gardening blog

Week forty six November 11th - November 18th

2006

Saturday/Sunday November 18th/19th 2006 It rained for three hours on Friday night but Saturday and Sunday were both still bright sunny days until the evening on Sunday when it began to rain again. I’m still clearing up the end of my allotment where I had the fire last week.

I dug around a small greengage tree that started life as a sapling growing from the roots of a much larger tree nearby. The original greengage tree I planted years ago after bringing it back from Ross-on-Wye. It's an English greengage tree that produces small, round, sweet, greengages in August. Once the trees are a few years old they produce a number of suckers at the end of their root system that can be dug up and be moved on to grow into large trees in their own right. They crop true to type so this is a greengage that is a quick and easy tree to propigate.

2005

Wednesday 16th November 2005 The frosts have arrived and the dalias have turned black. Just in case the winter gets really hard I've dug up some of my best plants tol keep inside until the winter is over.
We still havn't had a hard enough frost to kill of the dalias and it was a another bright a sunny weekend. On saturday all hives had bees flying in the middle of the day and I put entrance blocks in on any of the hives that didn't have them. Although the bees were flying and still gathering pollen they were at all pleased to be messed around with. Planted out more garlic and dug up potatoes. Cropped half a dozen nice celeriac.

2004

Frost black dalias November 18th Planted out more garlic four inches deep after digging up potatoes. I need to dig up all the remaining potatoes now as we have had rain nearly every day now for what seems weeks and the slugs will finish them off if I don't dig them up first. Somehow it is a lot harder to dig up the main crop potatoes than it is the earlies.