WHAT. A. MONTH.
September has been SO good! Almost as busy and productive as March 2021 when I first took on this plot. This blog is a long one because so much stuff has been done. Wahooo! The great autumn/winter to do list is gradually being crossed off, so that’s good. It might all be done by the end of October!
September to do list:
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Finish painting the wood
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Start prepping beds for winter. Weed, mulch, cover over. I want to
get most of the beds done this month, so that’s about 11 or 12 areas. Not much,
then!
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Dig the pond
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Fix the carrot bed
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Dig and turn compost. I am planning to use the stuff at the bottom
to fill my beds when I’ve made them deeper with the painted timber, so I need
to turn it this month.
BRACE YOURSELVES FOR THE TO-DONE LIST. It’s big. It’s huge!
It was expensive and knackering, but it’s oh so good.
Dug over compost heap and moved most of it into the other
bin so I can access the usable stuff at the bottom
Added three lots of shredded paper and cardboard to the mix
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Tidied and sorted shed
Sorted out crappy timber so I can start to dispose of it
Dug out calendula seedlings and replanted under the fruit
trees
Dug out gladioli and replanted
Sorted out rubbish
Weeded & cleared the polytunnel in prep for polytunnel
overhaul
Finished painting timber with lots of help from Momma P
Ordered more timber thanks to Momma P
Painted that too, thanks to Momma P!
Harvested 3 almonds off my tree (first ever harvest)
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Hacked down thistle thicket by the poly
Cut back bramble at the back of shed
Cut back bramble along the path
Plot neighbour has also started
clearing them all so I think he got the hint
Cleared, weeded, and dug over onion bed
Found some elephant garlic cloves
that I thought had rotted, so they’re being dried ready to plant at the end of
October
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Written my list of what I want to grow next year
Cleared and mulched around almond tree (and then planted the
calendula)
Cleared and weeded around apple tree (& planted calendula)
Ruined my favourite t shirt with green timber paint
It also soaked through to my bra
so that’s now green
Collected sea holly, teasel, cornflower, foxglove, calendula
seed
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Cleared, weeded, dug over, put down cardboard and topped up
with fresh peat compost in the L-shaped bed, and replanted the herbs. Need to
finish it.
Weeded the messy brassica bed
Made frames for beds – 8 so far! Only 3 more to do.
Fixed the carrot bed
Made a new bed by the pear tree and half-filled using
homemade compost
Extended leek bed into an 8ft-er to make better use of the
space
Relocated the arch across two beds, and braced it. Am going to get more and make a bit of a tunnel.
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Removed two small square beds from near the car park area
and replaced with one long 6ft bed, double depth
Made a new small square double depth bed near the shed and
half-filled with homemade compost
Transplanted strawberries and chives, replanted around apple
and pear trees
Dug the pond!! And lined it all in one day
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Planted the new square bed with feverfew, calendula, red
dead nettle, strawberry, and ragwort
Moved spoil heap (from pond digging) and used it to bulk
fill four raised beds
Put a stake in ready for the door on the compost heap that I haven’t made yet
Emptied a leaky water butt into the pond
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Cleared and prepped a bed ready for garlic
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Planted a donated apple tree and put flower bulbs around it
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October to do list:
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Buy peat free compost and start filling the beds up ready for
winter crops
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Sort out the polytunnel. Old cover off and cut up, new cover on
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Make a gate for the compost bin and hang it
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Plant garlic cloves and maybe onion sets
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Plant more bulbs
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