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