Fiann’s gardening tips for the week: October

While you plant over-wintering veg let us not forget autumn-planted fruits. 

Not just the bare root fruit bushes such as blackberries and blueberries, the various currants and gooseberries, but strawberries and rhubarb can be planted now too.

We can extend the season by some gardening trickery — warming the soil, hot beds, cloches, tunnels and glasshouses are all potentials for this month — the manufactured warmth keeps plants active, keep germination happening and defers seed setting and hibernation.