First frosts are approaching | Here are ideas for being ready || Charles Dowding
Autumn has a few boundary points between summer lingering, and the winter approaching. Before this occurs to the extent of resulting in frost, there are harvests to make. Plus I show the simple soil preparation for winter and next spring, when growing no dig.

We look at a range of seasonal jobs. Firstly clearing tomatoes in the polytunnel, with tips on ripening the green ones.
Then outside I show you harvesting the butternut squash. With tips on other frost sensitive vegetables.
Finally I plant garlic and spread compost. It's homemade compost and I spread it on all beds before winter, until we run out. Then I spread some bought-in composts too, all mulching at a depth of around one inch, 2.5cm.

00:00 Introduction
00:55 In the polytunnel - clearing plants, and tomatoes at three stages of ripeness
03:19 I demonstrate clearing a tomato plant (with some late blight)
07:06 Cucumber plants, with some diseased leaves - not a problem
07:38 Peppers
07:44 Loofa plant
07:53 Marigolds, anti-aphid, and their seeds
08:49 Outside - which plants are susceptible to frost
09:07 Squash - butternut, how ripe are they?
10:21 Courgettes - harvest before frost
10:43 Chillies, aubergines and peppers - all frost sensitive
11:24 Fennel and celery, and allow for your microclimate
12:23 More vegetables that are affected frost, incl. beetroot
13:07 Mulching the ground to prepare soil for winter
13:22 Planting garlic before spreading the compost
14:33 Seasonal jobs - my perennial diary, and calendar LINK
15:46 Spacing of the garlic, and what could follow in the spring
16:15 Spreading the compost over the garlic
17:50 Outro

Filmed 10th October at Homeacres no dig market and teaching garden, by Edward Dowding. The climate is temperate oceanic, zone 8, location is Somerset, UK.

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