[wolveryeti]

I will probably keep a few beds productive for overwintering things (PSB, garlic), while gradually picking the hardier stuff that is in the ground (beetroots, carrots).

The other beds will be covered by black weed suppressing membrane, possibly following a top dressing of some compost and other goodies. As an experiment, I will be trialling some green manure (phacelia and field beans) for the patches of open ground that I have once the squash currently there is harvested.

What will you do with your plot over winter?

[mumofstig]

Much the same as you, the empty beds will get Phacelia, mustard or spinach (old seed) sown on them. The coldest winter nights usually kill the tops, otherwise I'll cover the beds in early spring with cardboard/black plastic to kill the top growth.
The other beds will get the contents of the daleks on them, as their winter crops are finished harvesting.

My list of winter jobs seems to be getting longer by minute  ......

[rowlandwells]

yes its beginning to look like autumn folks we have picked all of our veg down the allotments apart from some cabbage and squashes and pumpkins and like the rest of you we need to sort out our raised beds for winter  have a bonfire clear the ground ready to winter plough   

we also have some sweet William plants to plant to overwinter for next years cutting then i think that's going to be about it till next year except for picking a few brussels and winter cabbage in the winter months

[wighty]

We've earmarked the front garden this weekend for it's final lawn cut(?) weed of the flower beds and I may let Paul do what he wants to do with the hardy fuschia which is trim it down with the hedge cutters rather than my snipping away with secateurs.  The runner bean wigwam has started to produce again so that has been given a reprieve (for the time being) but the green house has been very poor, mind you the neighbours have not trimmed their tree this year and it has grown up and now shades it.

[hasbeans]

Winter radish, chard, spinach, leeks, shallots, garlic, brassicas, broad beans and salad leaves in the coldframe.  I guess the soil can rest once I'm gone!

[Mintyboy]

I will be digging over any  ground that becomes empty except the bed I've earmarked for my no dig experiment,  that will have cardboard  and a good few inches of goat poo.
Many crops are hanging on in there so I'm in no rush yet.

[Subversive_plot]

I won't be playing fair at all.

I'm expecting tomatoes at least into late October.  Maybe November. Okra, peppers, herbs should last that long too.

I will be planting winter-appropriate vegetables in October to November (onions, lettuce, spinach, chard, peas, etc.)

[wolveryeti]

Is there any value to doing stuff like planting pockets for squashes in pre-winter prep, or will this just lose a lot of the nutrients to winter rains?

[New shoot]

Is there any value to doing stuff like planting pockets for squashes in pre-winter prep, or will this just lose a lot of the nutrients to winter rains?

I do ‘bean’ trenches over the autumn and winter for squash the following year. Sometimes they are square, or rectangular, or even a trench, depending on my plans.

I chuck the kitchen peelings and that sort of stuff in, then fill them in and mark with canes.  It does make a difference to how well your squash do the following year