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Oct 2019
11:01am, 31 Oct 2019
11,316 posts
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Cerrertonia
Nice, Dvorak. I've managed to get 5-6 hours of gardening done every day since Saturday - good spell of dry weather. I've picked the remaining winter squash and apples this morning. Still plenty of lettuce, rocket, chard and other salad-y things surviving the frost.
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Nov 2019
1:30pm, 1 Nov 2019
11,326 posts
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Cerrertonia
Used up the last beetroot and onions with squash and jerusalem artichokes to make some soup. Possibly not the tastiest combination.
I tried growing yams this year. They seem to have done ok in terms of above ground growth, but there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of tubers being produced below ground. Going to pull them up anyway this afternoon.
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Nov 2019
3:54pm, 1 Nov 2019
11,333 posts
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Cerrertonia
(Replying to my own post)
Bit of googling says that these are "oca" (not true yams) and I should leave them until late Nov/Early Dec as all the tuber-forming action comes after the foliage has died off.
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Nov 2019
4:45pm, 3 Nov 2019
18,638 posts
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Columba
I grew oca a few years ago; it was one of the Organic Gardening Association's experiments. I liked the flavour (slightly lemony) but the tubers were tiny. They probably need a longer summer than we usually get.
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Nov 2019
4:46pm, 3 Nov 2019
18,639 posts
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Columba
This afternoon I planted 10 cyclamen hederifolium.
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Nov 2019
4:55pm, 3 Nov 2019
33 posts
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logicscience
In lieu of a run this afternoon I took advantage of clear skies to level the undergrowth that I lovingly call a lawn and feel good about clearing the ground for some good hard work sundays over winter to tame the space.
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Nov 2019
5:54pm, 3 Nov 2019
24,512 posts
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Wriggling Snake
All looks a bit bleak out there...strawberry runners...I took loads this year. Cabbages still going...made a space for winter onion sets.
Compost looks good...made 2 huge bags of leaf mould.
Corn still not harvested!
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Nov 2019
6:57pm, 3 Nov 2019
183 posts
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MDrewett
Leaf mould - I need to get onto this! I have never made compost/leaf mould before, but the garden would definitely benefit, and now I've got an allotment, I need to get this underway!
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Nov 2019
7:48pm, 3 Nov 2019
35 posts
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logicscience
Note for my diary, pruning evergreen trees and hedge to be done in March.
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Nov 2019
8:34pm, 6 Nov 2019
70,421 posts
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Hanneke
I need to take cuttings of my non hardy salvia's, as there is a proper frost forecast for Friday. We have had a few night frosts and the Dahlia's have died back. They are in pots, but I experimented with leaving them in and just moving them into my heated greenhouse two summers running, i.e. one winter, and it isn't an overwhelming success so am going to dig them up, wash them and dry them and store them like that. Then next Spring, I shall plant them up again in fresh compost. I may decide to plant them into one of my raised cut flower beds. Our heavy clay is too wet and water logged n winter for them to survive, but if I mulched them deeply with leaf mould, another thing I need to deal with, then they'd probably survive in a raised bed.
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Sunlight, Warmth, Happiness… and triffids
Jul 2020