This is the time of nice sunny days, warm enough to work in shirt sleeves but cold nights. Ideal time to carry on with the preparation of the plot for next year and hopefully a few frosts to kill off some of those nasty bugs and diseases. If the weather is to bad then it’s time to sit down with the seed catologues and work out next years order.

The other jobs that can be done are the hard landscaping as it’s called these days. I intend to rebuild my manure storage area since the sides have rotted to nothing. I am still digging all the areas of the plots as I clear them and then cover them with manure so that the worms can mix it into the soil and save me work.

Tunnel 2 is now cleared and waiting for a rainy day to be dug and manured ready for next year. The asparagus bed is cut back and waiting to be covered with either manure or leaf mould. I also want to move my compost bins so I can empty the usable compost from them, this will give me some room to put the green waste materials that I’m producing at the moment.

JOBS FOR THE WEEK

1. Finish digging root bed. - Done
2. Dig back of manure area ready for new wall
3. Move compost bins
4. Paint shed
5. Dig tunnel 2

WORK DONE THIS WEEK

Monday

1. Empty leaf bins ready for new leaves.
2. Finish digging root bed

Tuesday

1. This is a new event for me- Flu- so no work today

Thursday

1. Leaves are now being delivered to site - fill leaf bins(11/2)

Friday 

1. More leave delivered, and into bins.
2. Water tunnel 1
3. Empty small leaf bin.

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK

1. Sprouts
2. Celery