Week 42 14th - 21st October

20 OCT Youtube video - grubs eating the roots
18 OCT Youtube video - greengage suckers.
17 OCT Youtube video - a few spring onions.
16 OCT Youtube video - moving gooseberry bushes.

Monday 15th October a day of drizzle. But I did get up to the plot later in the day once it had cleared a little. Two rows of broad bean seeds sown using seed save earlier this year. One of the crops I watered during the summer heatwave and drought were two small rows of wall flowers and as a result they are now a good size and ready to be planted out in the garden. Leeks weeded. Beet spinach grows wherever it is allowed to all over my plot now - picked some tender leaves from the middle of a few plants today.

Monday October 21st 2008 A nice sunny day but with a chill in the air. I emptied the first Pierce pallet compost bin today after it had spent the summer growing pot marrow on the top of it. It had rotted down well leaving only a few sprout stalks, part of an old coconut matt and the odd bit of selophane plastic wrapping from my third party kitchen waste still recognisably un-decomposed. Fed the Japnese onions sets with compost.

Saturday/Sunday 14th 15th October 2006. It was busy weekend in the allotment as weather stayed warm. The broad beans were sown, the spring cabbage planted, several buckets of apples picked, the new snowdrop site hoed over and the weeds cleared again.

I put mouseguards on two more bee hives.

Another warm sunny day. I'm still feeding the bee hives in rotation with sugar syrup hoping that they will mix it in with the Ivy honey that they are undoutedly making in this fine weather.

I have to move the apiary as there is new road running through the site and I guess new houses to be built along it. My deadline for giving up the land is end of October. I moved two of the beehives down to the allotments this weekend.

Tuesday 21st October 2003 Hail and a hard rain - at last! The weather has changed and Autumn will soon turn into winter now.

Sunday 19th October 200 Planted out a row of spring cabbage in the hope that it will rain soon. I have started to dismantle the support for the runner beans and have put the best bamboo canes in the shed. Sowed more broad beans and started to prepare the ground for the last of seeds to be sown this year - the Meteor small round seeded peas that I sow in the first week of December.