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Gardening diary - our weekly guide and topical tips for your English country garden and allotment.

Week 44 October 28th - November4th

The end of October and the begging of November is the time to start turning your attention to planting garlic, sowing broad beans and planting tulips. If your ground is not yet dug and ready for these three tasks - get digging now. The time for sowing Autumn broad beans isn't critical and can be done at any time during the next three weeks (and you could have already sown some in last three weeks). Those that are sown earlier will be more subject to frost damage if we get a mild early winter followed by hard frosts later on so making several sowings over the weeks is a good insurance policy. When planting garlic in the UK you will be well advised to initially buy specialist cloves from a seed catalogue that has been selected for our climate rather than buying your seed from the garlic on sale in the supermarket. The supermarket garlic is almost certainly not grown in this country and will not give you the best results. In future years you will be able to keep the larger specimens from your own crop and use them for your seed.

This weeks blog - what I did in the allotment this week