My Phalaenopsis orchid came into bloom again today!! Maybe I'm a better gardener than I thought.

Decided today was the day to dig over the raised beds. I noticed that the Brussels sprout plants in the large raised bed had mostly blown sprouts. Very sad, as these were going to be part of Christmas Dinner. Will remove the blown ones, and see if the plants produce more.

Even though it may be too late, I planted the Tulip bulbs. They went in the small raised bed with the rest of the Garlic cloves. Will see what happens.

Planted the rest of the crocus and snowdrop bulbs today - I hope I wasn't too late.

I think the tomato plants are past their best now, so will be getting rid in the next few days. Will be needing the room for other things I'll be planting over the coming weeks. It's a shame really, I've become quite used to them being there on the window sill.

I have a small pumpkin in the oven at the moment. In an hour or so I'll be able to scrape out the flesh and make a puree from it to make the pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins for the kids tomorrow. Will let you know if they taste OK!

The onion sets have started to sprout, some better than others. I think they will probably need some frost protection, so will buy some fleece from Wilko's on Monday (I hope they have some in!). I can already taste those sweet, red onions - yummy!

Going to have a bit of an experiment with the garlic. I planted some of the cloves in the small raised bed today, will plant some more mid-November, and the rest on the Winter Solstice. The Solstice is (if you didn't already know) the day when day light hours start to increase again. This is important for growing Alliums apparently, so by planting the garlic cloves in the way I'm going to be, hopefully by next summer I can see if it makes any difference. They will all hopefully produce lovely fat bulbs.

We lopped the heads off the Sunflowers a few days ago. We were amazed by how many seeds were held within the heads. The heads are on the kitchen windowsill at the moment, although one or two have gone a bit mouldy.

The area where the sweetcorn grew has now been dug over. Sweetcorn will be returning next year definately!

I decided that today would be the day to finally plant the onion sets. I bought 50 red and 50 white sets from Wilko's a few weeks ago which are over-wintering varieties. Two bags of multi-purpose compost and half a box of blood, fish and bone later, I had prepared the bed, so in the sets went. As with everything this year, this is the first time I have grown onion sets, so fingers crossed that they get on OK.

I think I'll take the advice of Gardeners' World magazine, and plant the garlic on cells of compost to get their roots developed before they go out next month. It'll give me time to weed and prepare the large raised bed if nothing else. I hope the garlic won't mind sharing with two Brussels Sprout plants.

Planted two packs of Fratillaria (Snakes Head variety) in the front garden. The bed they're in already has a few old daffodil bulbs in, but the more I think about it, the more I think I should buy more daffodils. As the front garden is north-facing, it doesn't get a huge amount of sunlight, but if the bulbs I have planted over the last few weeks don't do well, I can just dig them up and re-plant them round the back.

I received a huge clump of lovely pink Japanese Anemones from a lady on Freecycle. After soaking them in a big bucket for a few hours, I enriched the soil with some multi purpose compost, removed the weeds, and split the plant into two clumps with a spade. In a few days, I will chop all the growth down to ground level, and wait for them to start growing again in May. They are at the front of the house, which is north-facing. They appreciate not growing in full sun, so I am hoping they will be pretty happy there.

Sent a banana seed through the post. cost 61p!!!! how the feck do they justify the price hikes when I still don't get my mail until midday!!!!!!???? One bloody seed!!! Disgusted.....