Take advantage of any sunny days now so you can start preparing for winter. November might be traditionally damp and windy, but it can also be warm with a few days of autumnal sunlight. You should plant your tulip bulbs now for springtime blooming. Make use of this month to clean or repurpose any pots, plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and roses.
If you’re spending this month trimming back and organising borders. Fill up your compost container or heap with your garden debris. The gathered leaves can also be used to make leaf mould; simply put them in a reusable trash bag, poke a few holes in it, and let them rot for up to two years.
Ornamental Garden Job List for November:
- Part prune roses to prevent wind rock
- Remove surplus dead leaves from ponds
- Mulch borders
- Plant bare-root shrubs and roses
- Plant amaryllis or paper-white daffodil bulbs for blooms in time for Christmas
- Plant winter flowering shrubs like daphne and sarcococca
- Take hardwood cuttings of roses and other deciduous shrubs
- Scarify lawns
Vegetable Garden Job List for November:
- Begin winter pruning of fruit trees
- Plant fruit trees, soft fruit and cane fruit
- Plant garlic cloves
- Apply grease bands around trunks of fruit trees to protect them from the winter months
- Apply a good layer of compost/manure to bare areas of ground
- Protect salad plants under cloches/ fleece etc
- Clear spent old plants.
General Garden Job List for November:
- Add garden waste to your compost heap
- Leave the seed heads of grasses like Miscanthus to provide winter structure
- Cutback spent foliage and flowers of herbaceous perennials
- Rake and remove fallen leaves
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