[waterbuffalofarmer]

Autumn is finally here, I call it the start of the cold season really started it off with a nasty cold too.... However this is not what I have come here to talk about. October, gardeners will call, is the season for harvesting the last of summer fruits, setting the pumpkins out to ripen and harden up for storage against the winter. The things that I will be doing in prepping the garden for the coming new year  are, adding natural waste, manure and such, to the patches, weeding around the fruits bushes and mulching them. Pruning won't be until Nov-Dec due to warmish weather, but the mulch (thickly spread) should help to keep the weeds down and out until the weather starts to warm up again. The question I would very much like to ask is.... What plans have you for your gardens this month? Also what advice could you give about  planting/uprooting other things in the garden or what plants/bulbs we should be planting at this time, or is it a little early? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

[sabrina]

Garlic if you grow it needs to be planted about this time. I have grown spring cabbage over the winter.

[cloddopper]

A frost free NOV into Dec is the start of my gardening year .. all the plants that want to go to sleep are sleeping . I've  sow my overwintering onions ,  garlic & broad beans .  The spring cabbages & cauli have been planted out deep each plant has a pinch of beneficial fungi down the planting holes 
out & we are now starting to eat our winter carrots ......one per stew /casserole  .... nice rock hard 13 inch long x 2.5 inch thick ones .
Fresh leeks are also now on the menu only 40 or so to go . \The sprouts are starting to look good as well . I might give them a sprinkle of veg Growmore tomorrow ..... If I remember to .
 I'll also be sowing some cut & come again  salad leaf , get it germinated inside the house as plugs then set them out in larger containers as plug plants  in the glasshouse on the heated propagation bed under a micro fleece covering .  .
 COme new years day I'll be sowing onion & leek seeds