Harvest apples and pears.
Harvest your beetroots, onions, leeks, sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots etc
Store in a cool frost free place until use.
Plant winter onions and green manure crops.
Cut grass for last time.
Prune back herbaceous plants. Dry herbs for winter.
To help prevent slugs and snails from eating your strawberry crop, place clean dry straw around the base of your strawberry plants so that the strawberries are on the straw and not laying on top of the damp soil or compost.
Hand picked at school today.
One of the major problems we have found in the Rosehill Allotment is that the local pigeons like to come and eat our plants that have just started growing. But we have found a solution! If you put some old twigs in the ground and wrap brightly colour tape/fabric around them it really scares the birds away! We also decorate old pots and put them on sticks so they rattle in the air.
However, we have discovered that this still does not stop our friendly blackbird from coming to eat the worms in the garden!
The plants and weeds are growing quickly now so make sure to keep on weeding regularly.Compost your weeds but do not add weeds that have gone to seed.
Watering is very important this month as we have had very little rain.It is best to water in the evening when the water will not evaporate so fast. Plants will go to seed if not watered.
Now is a good time to plant final bedding plants such as geraniums and marigolds for colour in your garden through out the summer.Do not forget to water them every day
Harvest your lettuce, raddishes and early potatoes.Strawberries are ready to harvest now. Herbs can be cut and dried for use in the winter.
