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