Grow your own worms

 How to get earth worms into your beds.

Worms like warmth, dampness and darkness.

Choose a bed that is empty and water it for two weeks. Then cover it for the winter with plastic.

When you open it up the following Spring....there you are.... the best growing soil ever.

I do one bed a season, works wonders ever time.  

How to store your carrots

 

I've generally felt carrots are, similar to potatoes, an underestimated vegetable. Flavourful and solid, carrots are an especially decent wellspring of beta carotene, fiber, nutrient K1, potassium, and cell reinforcements as well as being low in calories.

In September it is a good idea to lift your lift your  main crop carrots, use a fork to lift your crop. Remove the tops. Lay aside any parted or harmed carrots.

To store, use a cardboard box and put  about   ½ inch (1 cm) layer of  damp sand at the bottom. 

 Doing this will stop the crop going wrinkling, if they do you can put the carrots in water for a couple of hours and they will be fine.

Lay the carrots top to tail in a line or in a circle with a tiny bit of room between and afterward cover with sand to ½ inch (1 cm) over the primary layer. Rehash as required. Keep in cool  spot and they should keep going for quite a long time.

Tomato Care in September

 

Greenhouse Tomato Care  Keep on feeding and do not overwater now things are cooling down. Wash off shade paint . Do make sure that your green house is well ventilated to help, this'll help to prevent mildews developing.  Remove any diseased leaves. Remove leaves starting from the bottom that are shading the fruits to help them ripen and improve airflow.

Tomato Freezing  If you find you've too many tomatoes to cope with at the moment, just put them them into your  freezer. They willl keep at least 3 months and be ok for cooking.

Use the Greenhouse

 

 Use the Greenhouse 

Autumn is upon us, however it is not too late for sowing a few crops outdoors, like lettuce and carrots.. If you have a greenhouse or a poly-tunnel you can make good use of it – even if you have a few  tomatoes in the ground. 

Sow early carrots, turnips and  beetroot for a quick crop that would be ready mid to end November.

Also good to continue with successional sowings of lettuce which do remarkably well under cover as the year cools down. Keep a space for a some spring onions too – White Lisbon Winter Hardy .

I grow my Taunton Dean kale in containers and bring them in when the weather starts to get bad. The idea is to keep the birds off  the crop. 

You can also use containers for all the above crops it gives you option to grow inside if the weather is too harsh, just move them under cover.