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What To Do in The Garden – First Week of November

In the Flower Garden

  • Cut late-summer-flowering clematis right down to soil level
  • Divide congested clumps of perennials such as asters, campanulas, rudbeckias and chrysanthemums after flowering
  • Plant bare-rooted roses
  • Dig up and compost exhausted summer bedding
  • Plant out wallflowers, interspersing with taller-growing tulips
  • Pile a thick mulch of compost or bark around hardy fuchsias to protect them from frost. You can also add some grit around the base of the plant for extra drainage.
  • Move shrubs, including conifers and evergreens, that have outgrown their position
  • Pot up tender perennials from summer displays to bring under cover for winter protection
  • Pick leaves affected by rose blackspot and collect any lying on the ground nearby
  • Cut down perennials whose seedheads aren’t worth keeping, digging in compost around them

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Wrap grease bands around fruit trees to catch female winter moths climbing up from the soil
  • Plant out garlic or start growing cloves in pots to plant out later
  • Clear away old crops and dig over the ground
  • Sow hardy peas under fleece for an early crop next year
  • Harvest mature marrows, pumpkins and squashes
  • Save fully ripe seeds from your favourite peas, beans and tomatoes to sow next year
  • Pick apples and pears as they ripen
  • Sow a green manure crop of winter rye on bare areas of soil
  • Order fruit trees, bushes and cane fruits for winter planting
  • Sow broad beans outside under cloches, or raise in pots to plant out later

The Greenhouse

  • Insulate your greenhouse by lining the inside with bubble polythene
  • Bring tender plants under cover
  • Sow sweet peas in deep pots and overwinter in the greenhouse or a cold frame
  • Check greenhouse heaters are working efficiently
  • Spread out harvested onions on staging to dry thoroughly before storing
  • Monitor day and night temperatures with a max-min thermometer and turn on heating if needed
  • Water plants sparingly and avoid splashing the water around
  • Move Christmas cacti to where they get short days and long nights, with no artificial light, to promote flowering
  • Clean staging and wash capillary matting to use next summer
  • Bring potted peaches and nectarines under cover

Generally Around the Garden

  • Add old crops and bedding to the compost heap
  • Spike lawns then brush grit into the holes to improve surface drainage
  • Collect seeds from beans and sweet peas to sow next year
  • Firm soil around newly planted trees and shrubs if they’ve been loosened by wind
  • Check bulbs and tubers in storage for signs of rot
  • Rake up leaves to compost into leaf-mould
  • Sow a green manure crop of field beans on bare soil
  • Build a log pile for beneficial insects and animals to use for hibernation
  • Send off for new seed and bulb catalogues
  • Check bonfires carefully before lighting to make sure there are no sleeping hedgehogs underneath

 

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What To Do in The Garden – First Week of November

In the Flower Garden

  • Cut late-summer-flowering clematis right down to soil level
  • Divide congested clumps of perennials such as asters, campanulas, rudbeckias and chrysanthemums after flowering
  • Plant bare-rooted roses
  • Dig up and compost exhausted summer bedding
  • Plant out wallflowers, interspersing with taller-growing tulips
  • Pile a thick mulch of compost or bark around hardy fuchsias to protect them from frost. You can also add some grit around the base of the plant for extra drainage.
  • Move shrubs, including conifers and evergreens, that have outgrown their position
  • Pot up tender perennials from summer displays to bring under cover for winter protection
  • Pick leaves affected by rose blackspot and collect any lying on the ground nearby
  • Cut down perennials whose seedheads aren’t worth keeping, digging in compost around them

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Wrap grease bands around fruit trees to catch female winter moths climbing up from the soil
  • Plant out garlic or start growing cloves in pots to plant out later
  • Clear away old crops and dig over the ground
  • Sow hardy peas under fleece for an early crop next year
  • Harvest mature marrows, pumpkins and squashes
  • Save fully ripe seeds from your favourite peas, beans and tomatoes to sow next year
  • Pick apples and pears as they ripen
  • Sow a green manure crop of winter rye on bare areas of soil
  • Order fruit trees, bushes and cane fruits for winter planting
  • Sow broad beans outside under cloches, or raise in pots to plant out later

The Greenhouse

  • Insulate your greenhouse by lining the inside with bubble polythene
  • Bring tender plants under cover
  • Sow sweet peas in deep pots and overwinter in the greenhouse or a cold frame
  • Check greenhouse heaters are working efficiently
  • Spread out harvested onions on staging to dry thoroughly before storing
  • Monitor day and night temperatures with a max-min thermometer and turn on heating if needed
  • Water plants sparingly and avoid splashing the water around
  • Move Christmas cacti to where they get short days and long nights, with no artificial light, to promote flowering
  • Clean staging and wash capillary matting to use next summer
  • Bring potted peaches and nectarines under cover

Generally Around the Garden

  • Add old crops and bedding to the compost heap
  • Spike lawns then brush grit into the holes to improve surface drainage
  • Collect seeds from beans and sweet peas to sow next year
  • Firm soil around newly planted trees and shrubs if they’ve been loosened by wind
  • Check bulbs and tubers in storage for signs of rot
  • Rake up leaves to compost into leaf-mould
  • Sow a green manure crop of field beans on bare soil
  • Build a log pile for beneficial insects and animals to use for hibernation
  • Send off for new seed and bulb catalogues
  • Check bonfires carefully before lighting to make sure there are no sleeping hedgehogs underneath

 

Autmn Colour

What To Do in The Garden – First Week of November

In the Flower Garden

  • Cut late-summer-flowering clematis right down to soil level
  • Divide congested clumps of perennials such as asters, campanulas, rudbeckias and chrysanthemums after flowering
  • Plant bare-rooted roses
  • Dig up and compost exhausted summer bedding
  • Plant out wallflowers, interspersing with taller-growing tulips
  • Pile a thick mulch of compost or bark around hardy fuchsias to protect them from frost. You can also add some grit around the base of the plant for extra drainage.
  • Move shrubs, including conifers and evergreens, that have outgrown their position
  • Pot up tender perennials from summer displays to bring under cover for winter protection
  • Pick leaves affected by rose blackspot and collect any lying on the ground nearby
  • Cut down perennials whose seedheads aren’t worth keeping, digging in compost around them

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Wrap grease bands around fruit trees to catch female winter moths climbing up from the soil
  • Plant out garlic or start growing cloves in pots to plant out later
  • Clear away old crops and dig over the ground
  • Sow hardy peas under fleece for an early crop next year
  • Harvest mature marrows, pumpkins and squashes
  • Save fully ripe seeds from your favourite peas, beans and tomatoes to sow next year
  • Pick apples and pears as they ripen
  • Sow a green manure crop of winter rye on bare areas of soil
  • Order fruit trees, bushes and cane fruits for winter planting
  • Sow broad beans outside under cloches, or raise in pots to plant out later

The Greenhouse

  • Insulate your greenhouse by lining the inside with bubble polythene
  • Bring tender plants under cover
  • Sow sweet peas in deep pots and overwinter in the greenhouse or a cold frame
  • Check greenhouse heaters are working efficiently
  • Spread out harvested onions on staging to dry thoroughly before storing
  • Monitor day and night temperatures with a max-min thermometer and turn on heating if needed
  • Water plants sparingly and avoid splashing the water around
  • Move Christmas cacti to where they get short days and long nights, with no artificial light, to promote flowering
  • Clean staging and wash capillary matting to use next summer
  • Bring potted peaches and nectarines under cover

Generally Around the Garden

  • Add old crops and bedding to the compost heap
  • Spike lawns then brush grit into the holes to improve surface drainage
  • Collect seeds from beans and sweet peas to sow next year
  • Firm soil around newly planted trees and shrubs if they’ve been loosened by wind
  • Check bulbs and tubers in storage for signs of rot
  • Rake up leaves to compost into leaf-mould
  • Sow a green manure crop of field beans on bare soil
  • Build a log pile for beneficial insects and animals to use for hibernation
  • Send off for new seed and bulb catalogues
  • Check bonfires carefully before lighting to make sure there are no sleeping hedgehogs underneath

 

Autmn Colour

What To Do in The Garden – First Week of November

In the Flower Garden

  • Cut late-summer-flowering clematis right down to soil level
  • Divide congested clumps of perennials such as asters, campanulas, rudbeckias and chrysanthemums after flowering
  • Plant bare-rooted roses
  • Dig up and compost exhausted summer bedding
  • Plant out wallflowers, interspersing with taller-growing tulips
  • Pile a thick mulch of compost or bark around hardy fuchsias to protect them from frost. You can also add some grit around the base of the plant for extra drainage.
  • Move shrubs, including conifers and evergreens, that have outgrown their position
  • Pot up tender perennials from summer displays to bring under cover for winter protection
  • Pick leaves affected by rose blackspot and collect any lying on the ground nearby
  • Cut down perennials whose seedheads aren’t worth keeping, digging in compost around them

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Wrap grease bands around fruit trees to catch female winter moths climbing up from the soil
  • Plant out garlic or start growing cloves in pots to plant out later
  • Clear away old crops and dig over the ground
  • Sow hardy peas under fleece for an early crop next year
  • Harvest mature marrows, pumpkins and squashes
  • Save fully ripe seeds from your favourite peas, beans and tomatoes to sow next year
  • Pick apples and pears as they ripen
  • Sow a green manure crop of winter rye on bare areas of soil
  • Order fruit trees, bushes and cane fruits for winter planting
  • Sow broad beans outside under cloches, or raise in pots to plant out later

The Greenhouse

  • Insulate your greenhouse by lining the inside with bubble polythene
  • Bring tender plants under cover
  • Sow sweet peas in deep pots and overwinter in the greenhouse or a cold frame
  • Check greenhouse heaters are working efficiently
  • Spread out harvested onions on staging to dry thoroughly before storing
  • Monitor day and night temperatures with a max-min thermometer and turn on heating if needed
  • Water plants sparingly and avoid splashing the water around
  • Move Christmas cacti to where they get short days and long nights, with no artificial light, to promote flowering
  • Clean staging and wash capillary matting to use next summer
  • Bring potted peaches and nectarines under cover

Generally Around the Garden

  • Add old crops and bedding to the compost heap
  • Spike lawns then brush grit into the holes to improve surface drainage
  • Collect seeds from beans and sweet peas to sow next year
  • Firm soil around newly planted trees and shrubs if they’ve been loosened by wind
  • Check bulbs and tubers in storage for signs of rot
  • Rake up leaves to compost into leaf-mould
  • Sow a green manure crop of field beans on bare soil
  • Build a log pile for beneficial insects and animals to use for hibernation
  • Send off for new seed and bulb catalogues
  • Check bonfires carefully before lighting to make sure there are no sleeping hedgehogs underneath

 

Autmn Colour

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