As the days dim, it’s time to tidy, dig and maybe sow for spring
Let’s face it, October is not much of a growing month. It’s the time of damage limitation; preparation for winter; tidying – shutting down your veg garden if that is your wont.
First, what we are up against. We lose two hours of light this month. No more the long, high-sun, late-summer evenings, picking, sowing and mooching after work. My almanac says the sun will set before 4.30pm in southern England, but before 5.15pm in the west of Ireland. It is the month the clocks fall back. October has full moons topping and tailing the month: the harvest moon we had on the 1st, the hunter’s (also known as blood) moon is still to come on the 31st.
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