October
You can sow:
You can plant:
You can sow:
- Broad beans of a suitable variety e.g. Aquadulce Caudia.
- ready early next year
- Does not suffer so badly from blackfly
- When cropped leave roots in ground. Nodules on roots have fixed nitrogen from the air and will act as a fertiliser.
- Does not like a waterlogged soil
- Swiss Chard
- Chinese Cabbage
- Early summer cauliflowers
- Garden peas, choose an early hardy variety.
- Cover from pigeons.
- Green manure to grow over winter
- Do not sow mustard after brassicas (cabbage family) or if you have club root.
You can plant:
- Japanese onion sets
- Garlic
- Bare rooted gooseberries or currents
- Strawberry runners.
- Transplant spring cabbage
- Rhubarb
- Grape vine
- If you are cultivating with no dig
- Remove perennial weeds
- First year lay onto the surface wetted cardboard then a 10 cm layer of well rotted manure/compost.
- Subsequent years top up bed with a surface 5 cm layer of manure/compost.