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October
Rotations change in April

Vegie Garden

Rotation 1 – sow bush beans, climbing beans, shelling beans, green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, cauliflower, kohlrabi, peas
Rotation 2 – sow early carrots, plant potatoes
Rotation 3 – sow and plant out from greenhouse cucumber, pumpkin, squash, sweetcorn, zucchini
Extra beds – sow salad onions, plant potatoes 


Kitchen Garden:

Rotation 1 – sow bush beans, climbing beans, shelling beans, green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, cauliflower, kohlrabi, peas
Rotation 2 – sow salad onions
Rotation 3 – sow radishes, early carrots 
Rotation 4 – sow bush beans, climbing beans, shelling beans, green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, cauliflower, kohlrabi, peas 
Rotation 5 – sow spring onions
Rotation 6 – plant potatoes 


Vegie Garden and Kitchen Garden:

- Control slugs and snails by squashing them at night
- feed all beds lightly with complete organic fertilizer end October. Don’t use lime on tomato beds
- non-rotation beds – sow celery, leek, swede
- anywhere – sow lettuce & Asian green, mustard, spinach, plant out spinach from greenhouse  
- harvest: broad beans, purple sprouting broccoli, Sugarloaf cabbages, overwintering carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, salad onions, spring onions, radish, lettuces & Asian greens, mustard, spinach


Orchards:

- Continue mulching under fruit trees and berries (berries with a mixture of manure and pine needles)
- Hang up pheromone twists
- Check codling moth traps
- feed all trees and shrubs lightly with organic fertilizer, end October


Greenhouse:

- repot seedlings if necessary


General:

- cut grass
- weed around all plants
- check for aphids, spray with pyrethrum if necessary
- divide bulbs

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