I took advantage of a relatively dry day to get on with some garden jobs I raked up half a dozen sacks of leaves from the Green to make leaf mould, finished clearing and mulching the roses, weeded the asparagus and rose beds and tidied up the home brassica plot. Whilst doing the last of these I harvested the smaller cabbages for pickling.
The care for the roses has been inspired by my college course where we have discussed ways of limiting black spot damage. The roses haven’t suffered too badly in the past, but all have some degree of infection, so if I can reduce this next year, then we may be in a position to take some hardwood cuttings of the nicer ones this time next year.