My Garden in October 2025

There's been a lot of manual labour in the garden in October.

A lot of moving pots around.

A lot of preparing for winter.

I thought about doing some winter planting but decided against it.

This side of the house has been a dumping ground for the past 3 years. It can be accessed via a gate from the front where I can get my bike out, but I haven't ridden it for about 2 years. I emptied it all out, made a pile for the tip, kept the wood I have a few projects lined up for that I haven't yet told Peter about and apart from the grandchildren's bike I now have a walkway are of trip hazards and we can fully access the garden tools, the lawn mower and pressure washer and the fleeces I'll be needing soon for the more delicate plants in the garden.

The garden cushions, grandchildren's toys, my inline skates and a mamod train in the boxes. The grey slabs (front left) are the base for the sun umbrella.

I had a bit of an accident when moving some bricks and the wheelbarrow fell on me and I've a big gash on the back of my ankle, it took me out for a while.

But I completed the job and just have a skip run to do before it rains.

I've made small piles of bricks here temporarily. We've got more behind the shed and we'll be using them to make our new path where these hedges are and digging up the paving slabs to use to make the patio one slab wider so we have space to put the sun umbrella up.

I was getting irritated by how messy it was getting under the covered area and I couldn't access things properly. it looks so much better now the cushion box has a new home. I'll be able to start planning the spring planting now I can access everything.

I've got a couple of projects lined up for the pallets, there was no room down the side the of the house so they have to live here under the cover for now.

They can't been seen from where I sit and I now have room for the coat stand and boot rack.

The Patio and garden furniture was jet washed.

The cloche frame has been built and plants selected that will be going under cover when the time comes. We still get some sun here in the winter, which will help with the frosts.

One bed has been weeded and covered with a poly tunnel to see if the Thai Basil and parsley will survive the winter. Some of it has been potted up to go indoors as well.

The other bed still has tomatoes. Once they have ripened, I'll be digging this bed over and preparing it for spring planting.

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My friend bought us this beautiful rose on the first anniversary's of our daughter's death. As our garden is in containers, it meant this rose needed repotting as soon as possible and over wintering in the greenhouse.

I prepped the greenhouse with a raised wooded floor and lined it with a fleece.

Sun reaches this part of the garden all year round

The last job to do other than putting on the fleeces and the cloche was to repot my bay tree cuttings. Pots were around £3 so I bought these buckets at £1 each from B&Q and Peter drilled drainage holes in the bottom. We're going to use them for the hedge in the front garden along with a few other plants such as a hydrangea, as our box plants aren't doing so well (box blight) and it'll be nice to have a bit of colour in the front, rather than a solid wall of hedge, plus as we live near a school we need to be able to see up and down the road clearly before leaving our drive as sadly many parents let their children just run ahead despite knowing there are driveways.