What You Should Do in Your Garden During October

October is the time when you should start getting ready for up and coming winter even though we are only a few weeks into autumn. The jobs that need doing this month involve tidying the garden and harvesting any grown fruit.

Your Lawn
Your garden lawn should be starting to slow down with less growth so you are only looking at one or two more cuts. On these occasions raise the cutting height on your mower to give the roots more protection over the up and coming winter months.

You may live in a cold area, if so now is the time to carry out any work to the lawn. Use an autumn lawn feed to help your lawn through the colder months.

Make sure any fallen leaves are cleared; these will block sunlight from getting to your lawn which could lead to your grass turning yellow.

Your Greenhouse
Now is the time to give your Greenhouse a clean. Emptying your Greenhouse completely will make this an easier job all round. Cleaning now will clear any dead plants making the area ready for the next season. Once clean you can put your plants back.

It's also a good time to think about insulating your Greenhouse, bubble wrap can work wonders and can also help bring the cost of your heating bills right down over the colder months.

It's important to ensure that you don't get your Greenhouse too wet at the moment. This could lead to mould and your plants dying off.

Despite the weather becoming cooler, you can still grow Sweet Peas during the next few months ready for Springtime ready to be planted out in March next year.

Your Vegetable Garden
Did you cut back any Asparagus you may have had growing last month? Well if not, make sure this is done this month.

Onions should be planted now to be ready for next Spring and early Summer.

You can cut off the tops of your Peas and Beans this month. These can then be cut up and added to your compost. Only dig the roots in the next time you dig the bed in, the compost will then act as fertilizer.

Maybe start to think about digging your beds over in the next few weeks, frost will then help to break lumps down.

You should be harvesting any Pear or Apple trees you may have.

Now is a good time to think about planting spring cabbages, do beware of the pigeons and make sure you cover these up.

Your Borders
If you have any herbaceous plants that aren't flowering or have simply got too big, these can now be divided.

With frost now threatening you need to look at removing any summer bedding before these plants are killed off.

If the frost has blackened your Dahlias it's time for them to be moved to a cold greenhouse so the frost can't get to them.

Flowering bulbs for Spring should be planted now. October is also a very good month to plant trees.

Garden Pruning
If you didn't cut back your hedges last month, then this is your last chance before winter.

Prune back your Budlia, Roses and Lavatera to about half. This will stop the wind from damaging the roots during the winter months as well as tidy them up. Tie back any shoots you have on climbing roses.

Garden Birds
If you have bird feeders and baths then be sure that these are now kept clean. Also keep them well stocked up with different bird feeds. This will help the birds you have been feeding over the next few months.

If you want to feed Hedgehogs over the coming months, then be sure to use special foods that are available on the internet or in pet shops. It's a common myth that Hedgehogs should be fed bread and milk, this can be dangerous to them, so do stick to foods that are available and you will be pleased to know that they love Slugs.

Andy Williams is a freelance writer who recommends Garden Centre Online, providers of quality Gardening Equipment and equipment including gardening tools and accessories.

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