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Writer's pictureMary & June's Garden

October Gardening Checklist

🎃 Taking the scare out of taking care of your garden

✔️ Plant Garlic & Shallots (Pointy end up!)

✔️ Rake up fallen leaves to use as mulch or compost

✔️ Weed, weed, weed to catch those winter annuals early

✔️ Check forecast for frost and protect tree ferns, asters etc. with fabric


✔️ Harvest the last of beans, courgettes, pumpkins and store/preserve herbs

✔️ Sow a green manure to improve your soil. And get your soil tested!

✔️ Remove saucers and raise pots to avoid waterlogging over winter

✔️ Empty summer pots for compost


✔️ Apply Autumn lawn feed to revive your grass


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