First frosts are approaching | Here are ideas for being ready || Charles Dowding<br />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.<br /><br />We look at a range of seasonal jobs. Firstly clearing tomatoes in the polytunnel, with tips on ripening the green ones.<br />Then outside I show you harvesting the butternut squash. With tips on other frost sensitive vegetables.<br />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.<br /><br />00:00 Introduction<br />00:55 In the polytunnel - clearing plants, and tomatoes at three stages of ripeness<br />03:19 I demonstrate clearing a tomato plant (with some late blight)<br />07:06 Cucumber plants, with some diseased leaves - not a problem<br />07:38 Peppers<br />07:44 Loofa plant<br />07:53 Marigolds, anti-aphid, and their seeds<br />08:49 Outside - which plants are susceptible to frost<br />09:07 Squash - butternut, how ripe are they?<br />10:21 Courgettes - harvest before frost<br />10:43 Chillies, aubergines and peppers - all frost sensitive<br />11:24 Fennel and celery, and allow for your microclimate<br />12:23 More vegetables that are affected frost, incl. beetroot<br />13:07 Mulching the ground to prepare soil for winter<br />13:22 Planting garlic before spreading the compost<br />14:33 Seasonal jobs - my perennial diary, and calendar LINK<br />15:46 Spacing of the garlic, and what could follow in the spring<br />16:15 Spreading the compost over the garlic<br />17:50 Outro<br /><br />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.<br /><br />You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:<br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join<br /><br />#nodig #harvest #soilpreparation #garlic #compost
