Summer may be well and truly over, but there are plenty of things to keep gardeners busy as we head into autumn
Here's what to do this week:
- Clean barbecues, garden furniture and non-frost-resistant pots and store them for winter.
- Finish repotting winter-flowering arum lilies (Zantedeschia aethiopica).
- Check ties of climbers and replace as necessary where the shoots are rubbing against supports.
- Mulch over areas that haven’t been done and replenish those areas which have dispersed.
- Cut back dead or diseased branches of plum and cherry trees after picking. Paint saw cuts with wound paint.
- Clean water butts to prevent contamination of the water and blocked taps.
- Plant garlic outdoors in warm areas.
- After sowing a new lawn, keep off young grass as much as possible until spring.
- Sow seeds of pelargoniums in a frost-free greenhouse or conservatory.
- Start planting container-grown trees and shrubs in the garden once there has been enough rain to wet the soil thoroughly.
- Remove flowers from first year globe artichokes to allow roots to build up.
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