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Week 1

General
General border weeding and tidying where required.

Collecting ripened seed required by nursery.

Started to close vents and doors on greenhouses at night as temperatures fall.

Carried out a very late summer pruning of APPLES, and PEARS.

Pruned PEACH

Allotment
Harvesting CARROTS, POTATOES, RASPBERRIES and TURNIPS.

Every day picked up all fallen fruit.

Broadcast sown BROAD BEAN 'Express', onto area vacated by CABBAGES, as a green manure.

Picked off caterpillars from all BRASSICAS.

Edging all grass pathways.

Digging vacant plots.

Cot COMFREY for compost bin.

Greenhouse
Potted up LETTUCE 'Blush' into 12cm pots.

Sowed LETTUCE 'Fristina' into a seed tray.

Week 2

General
Shaping shrubs that flowered in mid and late summer and removed a few older branches if they were overcrowded.

Staked taller late flowering perennial, such as ASTERS, if the weighty flower heads were pulling them down.

Watering pots and containers less regularly.

Allotment
Harvesting RADISH, SPRING ONIONS, CHIVES, ONIONS, RUNNER BEANS, BASIL and PARSLEY.

Gave CELERY trench its last mounding of soil.

Moved dried ONIONS into tunnel for cleaning up and bagging.

Parterre
Harvesting TOMATOES.

Weeding and cultivating empty beds.

Greenhhouse
Harvesting PEPPERS.

Hunted down and found a slug.

Cleaned glass, benching and floor with an environmentally friendly bleach.

Potted PARSLEY and LETTUCE into 12cm pots.

Week 3

General
Taking cuttings from ARGYRANTHEMUM, SALVIA, OSTEOSPERMUM, ARCTOSIS and GAZANIA into module trays. These will replace older tender perennials that have become too woody.

Mowing less now and have raised the blades on all mowers.

Harvesting APPLES, PEARS and PLUMS.

Allotment
Continuing to pick fallen APPLES and PEARS each day.
Harvested TOMATOES, LETTUCE, RASPBERRIES, SWEETCORN and SPINACH.

Side shooted all TOMATO plants.

Harvested seed from BROAD BEAN 'Crimson Flowered' and PEA 'Forty First'.

Sorted through ONIONS and removed ones that showed signs of rot and put the rest into net bags and put into store.

Potted LEAF CORIANDER into 2 litre pots.

Turned compost heap.

Reclaim Garden
Planted out LETTUCE 'Valdor'.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Weeding beds and paths.

Week 4

General
Cutting back stems of perennials if no longer of interest.

Pruning rambling and climbing ROSES and tying in remaining stems.

Finished hedge cutting BEECH, YEW and LEYLANDII and have now started secateur pruning the LAUREL.

Allotment
Checked all fruit and veg in store.

Picked all fruit from TOMATOES and lifted plants, shredded them and added the shreddings to the compost heap. All unripe fruit was laid out on greenhouse benching to ripen.

Planted ONION sets 'Senshyu Yellow'

Harvested POTATOES, SPINACH, CABBAGE and GOURDS.

Parterre
Planted out CABBAGE 'Pixie'.

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