If you can't beat them ...

Visiting garden centres last week it became apparent that attention had turned from gardening to more seasonal concerns. I also received a couple of gardening magazines this week that also were in an early seasonal mood. As the weather today has been miserable I was spurred on to join them and have created a couple of web pages giving suggestions for gifts for gardeners in particular but not exclusively.

For anyone interested, (just in case for some reason you may shortly be buying gifts), they can be accessed here and here. Other ideas can be accessed from our shopping pages here.

And I haven't even mentioned the dreaded C word!!!

Offers too late for us

Don't you just love it when people do special offers after you have paid the full price? Thompson and Morgan are offering a 25% discount off their selected range of mushrooms.  Ours were planted in October!

 





Click here to read more about this offer from Thompson & Morgan

T & M have more special offers here

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Good Gourd!

Just one visit to the plot this week and really more of the same, the mantra at the moment is clear, weed, tidy and burn with little watering in the greenhouse, where the garlic is growing quickly and chrysanthemums producing lots of flower, thrown in for good measure.

We still haven’t had a frost to either sweeten the parsnips or knock back the dahlias so this week half of the dahlias have been cut down and removed along with the ornamental gourds that were growing amongst them. The gourds have been very prolific with some looking exactly like an edible squash variety but we won’t be risking eating any. Dahlia tops have been piled on the compost heap but the question now is what to do with several dozen ornamental gourds?

To read the complete entry for the last week in our October diary click here

To read about how the weather has affected us this week visit our new weather blog here