Gardening blog
Week forty two October 14th - October 21st
2006
Saturday/Sunday 14th 15th October 2006. It was busy weekend in the allotment
as weather stayed warm. The broad 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.
2005
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.
2004
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.
2003
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.
I still have a few apples left to pick and am watching the cauliflowers carefully
in order to catch them at just the right moment.
Saturday 18th October 2003 Sowed the first broads beans this Autumn in ground that
is still very dry as we had no rain again for quite some time.
