Jobs for October include:
Plant: garlic
Sow directly into the ground:
- swiss chard
- perpetual spinach
- mixed winter salad leaves
- broad beans – variety Aquadulce
Sow under cloches:
- lamb’s lettuce
Plant out:
- spring cabbage
- perpetual spinach
- chicory
- radicchio
Harvest before the frosts:
- french beans
- runner beans
- broad beans
- lettuce
- courgettes
- marrows
- carrots
- sweetcorn
- cabbages
- peas
- main crop potatoes
- autumn raspberries
- apples and pears
Other October Jobs:
- draw soil around leeks and celariac
- cut off this summer’s fruiting blackberry & raspberry canes at ground level & tie in new canes
- order new fruit bushes for winter planting
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