Nights drawing in

 It realy feels like Autumn now, the nights are drawing in, and despite
the forecast having been for 3 dayd without rain, it's been a wet one
here at this end of Swansea Bay, water lying out the field amongst the
dahlias, and the rabbits have already realised that I have taken down
the electric netting and are back digging.along the paths, and have
even had a go at some of the late growing chickweed, they can have all
of it if they want.
Have to gather the runner beans I left for seed as well as the peas,
as soon as they dry.
Then it's dahlia lifting for the next few weeks, it would be nice if
they could dry on the field after lifting.
What jobs have you got lined up for the next few weeks?
David

 "Dave Hill"  wrote

Well we have to arrange to have two trees taken down, a large Robinia
pseudoacacia "Tortuosa" and a large Cordyline australis. Both in our front
garden and now too big for the space, also drop too much rubbish on the car
and front.
Tomatoes will need to come out as soon as a frost gets them and the same
with the chillies although they will be fully cropped once there is a
suggestion of a decent frost but before it happens. Need to tidy up the
allotment, not that it's untidy, and our gardens before the winter sets in
too.

--
Regards  Bob Hobden
Posting to this Newsgroup from the W. of London UK

 In article <f3dd3f2c-2af6-47e5-bf34-e5ed260c91a8
@e37g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, david@abacus-nurseries.co.uk says...

Noticed that the runner beans are leaning somewhat now, and with the
wind and the rain, they could well be on the ground by the morning!
Clear them up and dig over the area where all the beans were planted
this year. Then its clearing the sweet corn plants and moving the
contents of the compost heap onto various parts of the garden, then turn
this years compost heap into last years now empty container. And thats
all before the end of the month!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

 On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:17:01 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill


Not only nights drawing in but mornings getting lighter later - I
overslept this morning because the cat decided not to get up and go
out at 6.30, presumably because it was dark (still dark when I did
wake up at 7).

Now I'm really waiting for a frost to make my mind up for me. Most of
the garden is put to bed save for one perennial bed that should have
been planted up by now but the nursery hasn't got round to sending the
plants. However I have one  large bed currently full of begonia
semperflorens that are still florensing their little hearts out and I
don't want to dig them up just yet. But I've got 400 tulips to go into
that bed before the ground freezes over in November (if forecasts are
to be believed). So a frost would clobber the begonias and I wouldn't
mind digging them up so much.

Then it's question time again. Questions such as why did my acanthus
grow to about twice their size compared to last year but not a single
flower appeared? And why do I have a phlox infested with lily beetle?
And why couldn't the mower just hang on for another couple of square
metres on Saturday before conking out?


Cheers, Jake
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URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay where about the
same moisture-wise as the more wet end.

www.rivendell.org.uk

 In article <f3dd3f2c-2af6-47e5-bf34-e5ed260c91a8
@e37g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, david@abacus-nurseries.co.uk says...


  I am lifting and splitting a load of blue ensata irises and some yellow
crocosmia, planting out hosta seedlings, still taking cuttings and
propagating for next year. Planted the ripe paeony seed.
If it would stop raining long enough, I'd cut the hawthorn and cotoneaster
hedges.
  As the compost bins load up with end-of-season plant detritus I'm
layering it with fresh seaweed and need to collect a carload of sacks of
horse manure (if it stops raining) for more layers.
I've cleaned off the dying waterlily leaves and put a temporary mesh over
the pond to keep the falling autumn leaves out.

      Janet.