September

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Jobs:

* Thin outdoor winter radishes, spinach, chard, turnips

* Ensure taller brassicas are earthed up and staked

* Finish harvesting onions

* Cut down tomatoes to ripen indoors or under cloches

* Put marrows, winter squashes and pumpkins in sun to ripen

* Continue to feed celeriac and leeks

* Cover late sowings of dwarf beans, carrots, endive, lettuce, potatoes, salads

* Complete summer pruning of apples and pears

* Harvest blackberries and autumn raspberries

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Plant:

* Spring cabbage, garlic, onion sets, lettuce, leeks

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Sow under cover:

* Calabrese, bunching onions, salads, radishes

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Sow outside:

* Spring cabbage, endive, kohl rabi, winter lettuce, last sowings of summer radishes, winter spinach, turnips​​​​​​

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October 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jobs:

* Start blanching endive

* Cut down Jerusalem artichokes

* Earth up leeks

* Lift and store cabbage before heavy frosts

* Clear away pea sticks and bean poles

* Start digging and manuring

* Mulch celeriac and parsnips with straw

* Earth up globe artichoke crowns and protect with fleece/leaves

* Protect salad plants with cloches 

* Thin swedes, winter salad plants

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Sow under cover:

* Winter lettuce, early summer cauliflowers, salad plants

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Sow outside:

* Broad beans, hardy peas

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Plant: 

* Spring cabbage, garlic, onion sets, winter lettuce

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November

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Jobs: 

* Digging and manuring, lime unplanted heavy soil to help break it down

* Weed crops in beds and under cloches

* Check stored vegetables and remove any rotting ones

* Mark positions of winter root crops in case of heavy snow

* Lift rhubarb crowns for indoor forcing

* Remove yellowing leaves from brassicas

* Thin / transplant winter lettuces

* Lift and store late sowings of beetroot, carrots, turnips, swedes

* Prune established fruit trees except for cherries, plums, damsons and peaches

* Lime old brassica plots to prevent club root disease

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Plant:

* Garlic, rhubarb crowns, fruit trees and bushes

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