Things to do in October

Start planting bulbs, trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials. 

Lawns 

• Sow new lawns from seed
• mow lawns for the last time this year
• scarify,  aerate and feed existing lawns

Sowing

• hardy salads and radish, hardy broad beans and peas.

Harvesting 

• courgette, beetroot, sweetcorn & potatoes. Also grapes nuts, tomatoes, apples and pears

Garden Jobs 

• Clear summer bedding plants
• take cuttings from geraniums
• collect flower and vegetable seeds
• clear falling autumn leaves
• lift and divide large clumps of vegetables

Bigger Tasks 

• turn the compost heap
• net the pond to protect them from leaves

Cuttings 

• take hardwood cutting of buddleja, forsythia, willow, flowering current, gooseberries and red/white and blackcurrents