Monty tells us it's an ideal time to plant bi-annuals for next year and, from his nursery beds, digs up Erysimum cheiri 'Blood Red', Wallflower plants which he's grown from seed. Monty replants the wallflowers in beds in the box garden.
Monty is in his pumpkin patch and is harvesting them. They store really well, they taste good and they're fantastic winter food, so he wants to make the most of what he's got. He recommends that when you're harvesting them it is important to cut them, not yank them, and also to keep a good piece...
Monty opens the programme with the menu sequence and, now that we're truly in the throes of autumn, Monty turns his attention to collecting fallen leaves. Monty regards these as a free harvest and shows us different ways to make leaf mould. Leaf mould is different to compost. Compost is very ric...
Monty is deciding what needs keeping, what needs throwing out and what needs cutting back. Monty takes out the cosmos as it's done all it can and cuts back the lysimachia. All the buddleias have done well. and have gone on flowering and flowering, and still going, so Monty's not going to cut th...
