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| Autumn Gardening Jobs |
Gardening Jobs for the Autumn:
After the busiest periods of the gardening year, Autumn is a time of important but uncomfortable work which is seldom enjoyed by the amateur gardener. At the end of the planting season annual plants will need to be removed, seeds will need to be collected if you wish to grow them next year, perennial plants will need to be cleared, tidied and pruned and the garden’s nutrients will need to be replenished.
- Seeds from plants such as Morning Glory, Sweet Peas, Marigolds, Tagetes and other easily seeded plants can be collected prior to the first frost. You will need to dry the seeds – preferably in the sunlight of the greenhouse before it becomes regularly damp – and finally stored in paper envelopes clearly labelled ready for seed sowing next year.
- Annual plants should be pulled up and disposed of at this stage of the gardening calendar. They can be easily disposed of onto the compost heap provided that they are not laden with seed pods ready to burst. These will decompose nicely in time for the gardening preparations next year. Always ensue that the roots of these plants are removed from the ground too in preparation for next season.
- Perennial plants such as Red Hot Pokers, Aubrietia, Hebes and other evergreens will need to be trimmed and thinned at this stage of the year. Plants such as Hostas, Astilbes and Rhubarb can be lifted and divided, before planting into pots into the greenhouse to develop and over winter too. These established shrubs will also need light mulch on them too, to prepare them for their hibernation and shutdown over the winter months. Plants such as clematis, fuchsias, conifers and hedging will also need to be pruned. Growth on apple, pear and fruit trees and bushes will need to be pruned too ready for the next season and shaped accordingly. This is the ideal time to tend to roses, shaping them ready for next year.
- The soil preparation is the final stage of the development at this stage of the year. You should invest time in digging over the soil and incorporating a good amount of well rotted manure, in order to allow this to decompose sufficiently over the winter months and the ice and weather to break down the soil once dug. For more information, visit the “Preparing the Soil” aspect of the article series on “How to create a Vegetable Plot from Scratch” on our partner site, WildMushroomsOnline. This will provide a detailed analysis on how to deal with the trials and tribulations of digging the soil.
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