GARDENING JOBS AND WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE IN OCTOBER

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Buy and plant out spring flowering Bulbs
Plant cabbage, celery, lettuce, spring greens, garlic and onion sets, and strawberries.
Protect winter cauliflowers, parsley, late lettuce and broccoli from frost.
Sow Broad Beans, cress and lettuce under cover.
Order Tulips to plant out in November.
Plant prepared bulbs in bowls for indoor display early next year.
Grow winter flowering Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) indoors .
Plant spring-flowering bulbs in borders and in containers.
Cut down asparagus stalks to prevent asparagus beetle making a home there.
Sow Green Manure - grazing rye and field beans.
Make leafmould with healthy leaves, destroy any leaves that look unhealthy.
Order Fruit Trees and bushes.
Prepare the ground ready for planting Fruit Trees and bushes and weed around established ones.
Harvest Tomatoes
Pick autumn-fruiting strawberries.
Finish picking apples and pears and store those that are unblemished.
Apply greasebands to trees and stakes.
Cut out and destroy diseased wood.
Remove mulch and hoe round raspberry canes to expose overwintering pests.
Propagate Conifers from cuttings

Remove shading wash from the greenhouse if applied in the spring.
Take cuttings of carnations, fuchsias, herbs and many shrubs and perennials to root in the greenhouse.
Propagate pelargoniums
Propagate Houseplants

Continue sowing vegetables for spring - cabbages (spring and red), cauliflowers, corn sald, endive, lettuce, (cos and butterhead), onions, radishes, spinach and turnips..
Plant out spring cabbages.
Earth up celery and leeks.
Sow green manures: winter tares, mustard, field beans and phacelia.
Sow parsley and chervil for use in late winter and early spring.
Divide and replant large clumps of perennial herbs.
Harvest vegetables as they ripen. (It's especially important to harvest courgettes and beans while they are young and tender)
Cut culinary herbs and dry or freeze to use later in the year.

Harvest your crop of tomatoes.
Pick soft fruit and prune after picking.
Prune espalier and cordon-grown apple and pear trees.
Cut out fruited raspberry, blackberry and hybrid canes. Use their leaves to make leafmould unless they have leaf disease, in which case destroy them.
Look out for caterpillars on fruit. Pick off any with leaf miner larvae or mildew on and be on the alert for slugworm damage. Set pheremone traps.
Take nets off fruit trees and bushes after picking, so birds can peck off any pests.
Prune raspberry canes at ground level after picking the last fruit.
Harvest apples and pears and store. They can be prone to pests and diseases. Remove fallen leaves and dropped fruit to prevent disease.
Examine apple and pear trees for signs of canker and prune out.
Net grapes to prevent birds and wasps eating the fruit.
Pick apples and pears as they ripen and store the excess.
Apply or renew greasebands on the trunks of apple and pear trees.
Remove and destroy any mummified fruit, edpecially plums.

Plant out spring-flowering biennials, including forget-me-nots, and wallflowers, in their flowering positions to give them time to establish before winter.
Sow hardy annuals to be overwintered outdoors and in the greenhouse.
Deadhead roses to encourage repeat flowering unless the roses are being grown for the colour and profusion of their hips.
Cover summer bedding with several layers of horticultural fleece if frost is forecast to prolong the display a little longer.
Lift tender perennials such as argyrannthemums, fuchsias and pelargoniums befor the first frost to be overwintered under cover.
Deadhead regularly to encourage more flowers unless you want seeds or hips to form.
Prune deciduous autumn-flowering shrubs over three years old as they finish flowering.

Tidy the pond by deadheading marginal aquatic plants and removing excess growth from submerged oxygenating plants.
Top up garden pools to replace water lost through evaporation.
Ensure the surface of ponds are kept clean by removing floating weeds and any slime algae.
Clean out the pond if necessary.
If present scoop out and collect mats of tiny-leaved duck weed and twirl hair-like blanket weed from the surface with a stick or garden cane.
Put them in a heap on the edge of the pond overnight so any aquatic creatures can crawl back into the water. The next day add the heap to the compost heap.
Put new aquatic plants in the pond either in the soil at the bottom or using special aquatic baskets.
Oxygenate the pond with plants like Mash marigolds and Callitriche.

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