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Walton Road Allotments

jobs to do in october

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Sowing & Planting

  • Sow broad bean seeds for next year
  • Plant garlic & onions
  • Plant rhubarb and bare-root fruit bushes such as currants and gooseberries.

Harvesting 

  • All remaining summer vegetables
  • Lift potatoes and beetroot
  • Cut pumpkins and winter squashes.  Cure the fruits by leaving them in the sun for their skins to harden and the flesh inside to ripen
  • Harvest leeks just before you need them and earth up any that remain in the ground
  • Continue to pull maincrop carrots

Preparation

  • Take down supports used for climbing beans, peas and tomatoes
  • Clear away dead plant material and compost it
  • Begin winter digging
  • Cover beds to keep off the worst of the rain and suppress weeds
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