Harvest main crop potatoes, dry them off before storing and check each tuber for damage and disease. Store only healthy, undamaged potatoes in jute, hessian or paper bags in a cool, dark, frost-free place.
Store onions in nets or on slatted trays in a well ventilated place.
Keep harvesting!!
Leave autumn squashes to ripen on the plant for as long as possible. Place a tile or wooden board under the fruit to keep it clean. They are ready to harvest when richly coloured and sound hollow when tapped.
Plant out spring cabbage and over-wintering onion sets.
Spinach can be sown until the middle of the month as can parsley, rocket and coriander.
Sow green manure crops on any empty beds.
Sow kale for spring harvest and sow broad beans late in the month.
Protect leafy veg crops with bird netting.
Cut herbs for drying.
Pot up strawberry runners to make new plants or plant out new strawberries.
Prune out the fruited canes of summer raspberries, blackberries, loganberries and Tay berries leaving the new green canes as these will bear next years fruit.
Prune blackcurrants, removing damaged, crossing and some old branches down to near ground level.
Summer prune trained fruit trees (fans, espaliers and cordons).
Apply grease bands to fruit trees at the end of the month to deter winter moth infestation.
