Ornamental Garden:
- Part prune roses to prevent windrock.
- Continue to tidy borders if weather permits.
- Final cut for lawns if no frosts.
- Remove fallen leaves.
- Cutback spent foliage and flowers of herbaceous perennials.
- Leave the seedheads of grasses like Miscanthus to provide winter structure.
- Continue to lay turf for new lawns – avoid frosty days if possible.
- Remove surplus dead leaves from ponds.
- Complete planting of bulbs.
- Mulch borders – especially borderline hardy perennials.
- Plant bare root shrubs and roses.
- Prune long stems of roses to avoid windrock.
- Take hard wood cuttings of roses and other deciduous shrubs.
- Scarify lawns.
- Keep off lawns in wet and frosty weather.
Veg Garden:
- 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 from 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 and compost of disease free.