Top Ten Gardening Tips for Autumn
Gardening is ever changing with the seasons. With the first days of autumn upon us, we have some top tips to keep your garden at it’s best:
Start your Compost
It is essential to replace the goodness in soil and autumn produces plenty of waste for feeding your soil next spring.
Ease off Watering and Feeding
Ease off the watering and feeding because drier plants overwinter better however….
Watering in Warm Weather
….Should early autumn turn into an Indian summer, remember to keep watering thoroughly once or twice a week rather than little and often. Containers and hanging baskets need watering every day.
Deep Clean
Keep deadheading to produce more flowers because we get warmer autumns than we used to. Once greenhouse crops are over, give the greenhouse a deep clean to prevent pests.
Dig Clay Soil
Start digging clay now. It can be left roughly dug over winter as the cold will break the lumps down making spring planting easier.
Trees and Shrubs
Ensure trees or shrubs planted on grass have a clear circle of earth around them. Grass on these areas will prevent essential moisture getting through. Mulching with bark or compost will help.
Planting
With the ideal planting conditions of autumn (warm moist soil), now is the time to plant container grown shrubs, trees, fruit bushes, perennials and bulbs. Water in well.
Ponds
Net ponds before leaf fall gets underway
Indoors
Start to reduce the frequency of houseplant watering
Crops
Cover leafy vegetable crops with bird-proof netting
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