[Paul Plots]

Heavy rain whole night and this morning    lucky, i put my machines in the garage last evening  maybe will drive around some scrap yard, chase cheap harvester, otherwise nothing to do outside

Rice harvester? 

[tonel]

Managed to get a couple of hours in today - strimmed all the grass down, tested out the new digging hoe on a new bed I'd had covered for a while to kill off grass/weeds (worked very well, broke up the ground nicely). Plot looks fairly tidy now, although a bit empty (just leeks, small amount of winter radish and kohlrabi and some florence fennel left now, other than green manure). Guess I should start thinking about planting garlic..

[DigIt]

Back at the allotment for an hour today. Is it really Mid October cos it doesn't feel like it, padding around still in shorts!

Tidied up the strawberry bed, now looks like someone owns it again!
Top dressed the rhubarb and cleared a patch where the red cabbage were.

Harvest Time :
Lifted some leeks. I fancied some leek & tattie soup!
Cut a lovely Savoy. They have done much better this season.
Picked a few more courgettes
Picked the last of the apples
And guess what.....

more raspberries.
Surely they have finished now!!!!!
 

[marimba]

Frost!  So that was that summer!  Spread manure from the riding school which is only ten minutes away. Cleared up the  frosted plants and put in the compost....and sat in the sun. 9 degrees C but wonderful in the sun as there was no wind.

[SkipRat]

Cleaned out one of my greenhouses, Harvested a basket of chillis. Mended a puncture on my wheelbarrow.

[mumofstig]

took down bean canes, and dug compost into that bed. weeded around brassicas.
Pulled a few more leeks with moths 

[Vit]

Rice harvester? 

It looks like this
NJAXzl41-3wand suitable for both rice and wheat or barley. But i prefer this design with treshing unit
wwTE1t6ds94this is attachment to the mini "walk-behind" tractor.
And local mini machines looks like this
uHLAheoeDiI

[Paul Plots]

Amazing machines Vit! Thanks for the links. 

[Spana]

Brilliant bits of kit Very interesting clips  Thanks

[AnneB]

Took down the bean poles.
Harvested last of courgettes, cucumber and patty pan squash.
Dug up remaining beetroot.
Harvested 2 huge red cabbage, 1 just started being got at by slugs.
Picked last of the peas.
Harvested 2 fennel and put fleece around remaining 2, due to frost forecast later in the week.
Planted the garlic - 3 varieties this year, Music, Purple Wight and Albigensian Wight
Picked some 'extra' cabbage growing from the stalks of earlier harvested Precoce de Louviers, cut with a knife - 4 new small cabbage as an extra.
Added some leaves from the garden to the leaf mould bin.
Other half digging over area where the fruit cage is going to go.
Lots of talking to neighbours.
A good day.

[Vit]

yesterday picked up two walk-behind tractors with rotarys. very cheap for local prices, but both not going. one is kinda parts(no belts, some levers and pull-start missing) and another complete machine. so today will play around. both have 5 or 5.5hp 4-stroke engines, gearbox 3+1 and PTO for rotary. what i already noticed, Iseki have much better quality of painting - almost no rust. other machines i saw not bad, but more rusty

[kosh42|EFG]

Painted the surrounds for my veg beds, dug over one of the beds (was part dug but mostly hard, weed laden ground), planted out spring cabbage, and put in some garlic, elephant garlic and onions (three varieties), and covered these and  the salad with fleece.

The last of these was done by torch light as it got dark sooner than I thought, and as always the jobs took longer....

[Vit]

The last of these was done by torch light as it got dark sooner than I thought, and as always the jobs took longer....

sad, but true 

Most of the day played around new toy, engine looks ok ,but had heavy oil leakage, so been covered by thick coat of dust-sand-oil mix  :blink: ah, should make photos "before" and "after" for Equipment shed, too late - it's almost clean now 

Requested quote from local seed supplier for wheat, barley and oat. Also requested info about linseed

[mumofstig]

painted the newly made compost bin and had a really big moan about the foxes - who had unearthed many of my onion sets 

[jmc1949]

As I only took over the tenancy for my plot 5 days ago, and I inherited a jungle, yesterday afternoon and this morning was spent clearing 3 of 7  8x4 raised beds, strimming the overgrown grass and measuring the plot.