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Week 1

General
Cutting back perennials as they begin to go over.

Forking over bare patches, incorporating our own garden compost and then planting.

Collecting required seed.

Mulching bare areas around larger shrubs to minimize weed growth.

Allotment
Planted out SPRING CABBAGE 'Offenham 2 Flower of Spring', 'Durham Elf', 'April' and 'Mastergreen' and covered all of them with netting.

General hoeing where needed.

Dug in MUSTARD grown as a green manure.

Checked all stored fruit and veg.

Dead headed all MARIGOLDS.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Harvested SWISS CHARD by cutting hard back which will also encourage more growth.

General tidy up.

Greenhouse
Picked all MELONS and removed plants and canes.

Week 2

General
Shaping evergreen shrubs where needed and pruning summer flowering shrubs, including climbing and rambling roses.

Dividing herbaceous perennials if they have outgrown their spot, digging over, incorporating our own garden compost and then replanting with smaller clumps.

Picked all plums.

Pruning PEACHES, ACID CHERRIES, DAMSONS and PLUMS now that they have finished fruiting.

Finished hedge cutting all conifer and deciduous hedges and started secateur pruning the LAUREL hedges.

Harvesting APPLES and autumn fruiting RASPBERRIES.

Nursery
Started potting divisions from the gardens.

Taking last batch of PENSTEMON cuttings.

Week 3

General
Watering all pots, wall pots and baskets, especially when windy.

Staking and tying taller flowering perennials that are suffering in the winds.

Finished pruning LAUREL hedging.

Mulched areas under established shrubs to prevent weed growth.

Allotment
Picked FRENCH BEAN 'Purple Queen', then lifted the plants, remembering to leave the roots in the ground, and put the tops on the compost bin.

Picked all CUCUMBERS grown in the Hotbox and then lifted plants.

Dug vacant areas, adding sharp sand where needed, and weeded where needed.

Cleared cut flower bed of summer flowering plants and dug over in preparation for SWEET WILLIAMS.

Directly sown LETTUCE 'Valdor' and ONION 'Guardsman' and White Lisbon Winter Hardy'.

Put extra support onto RUNNER BEAN wigwams, due to weight of crop.

Dug in MUSTARD used as green manure.

Removed all MARIGOLDS used as companion planting, shredded them and then put the shreddings in the compost bin.

Turned compost bins.

Dressed onions and put into net bags and stored.

Single dug vacant areas.

Cut down COMFREY and put leaves into compost bins.

Parterre
Picked all TOMATOES, removed plants and then cultivated the vacant plot.

Removed SWEET CORN, shredded plants and put into compost bin.

Single dug empty beds.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Saved seed from HDRA Heritage Varieties FRENCH BEAN 'Blue Coco' and TOMATO 'Maltese Plum'.

Shelled FRENCH BEAN 'Blue Coco', will save some for next year's seed and send the rest back to the HDRA.

Greenhouse
Potted PARSLEY 'Moss Curled' into 7.5 litre pots for winter use.

Sown LETTUCE 'Fristina' into modules.

Washed inside and out using an environmentally friendly bleach.

Week 4

General
Covered any ponds likely to collect the falling autumn leaves with netting.

Forking over borders, weeding and planting up any gaps.

Allotment
Prepared area for winter ONIONS.

Repaired Melbourne cloches in readiness for winter use.

Hoed between BROCCOLI.

Edged all grass paths.

Harvested all MARROWS and stored.

Spread well rotted manure from hotbox.

Planted ONION 'First Early' sets using planks to walk on as the ground is very wet.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Cut down ASPARAGUS tops, shredded and added them to the compost heap.

Greenhouse
Harvested POTATO 'Salad Blue' being raised from micropropagated slips and these tubers will be saved for next year's seed.

Removed all TOMATO plants from the tunnel.

Cleared one greenhouse in readiness for overwintering the tender perennials from the garden.

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