Six must do jobs for November:
1. Net brassica crops against hungry pigeons, they can strip a crop in no time
2. Plant fruit trees, cane fruit, trees, shrubs and rose bushes this month.
3. Complete dividing and replanting perennials and grasses.
4. Complete planting tulip bulbs, and other bulbs for a spring display
5. Look out for mealybugs (white fluffy patches on plants) and scale insects (small brown insects sticking tightly to the leaves) under glass and on house plants
6. Plant up winter displays in containers, to include, wallflowers, pansies, bellis, bulbs and add small evergreens to give a bright pot of flowers when you look out of your window in the winter.
Other jobs to do include planting garlic and broad beans in the veg plot, dig over and manure the remainder. Keep and eye out for damage by squirrels, rabbits and deer, as well as slugs and snails, and protect plants as necessary. Rake up leaves and make a leaf mould bin or put on to the compost in small amounts, as it will become compacted if too many leaves are deposited all at once. Rake lawns, and scarify, attend to mole damage. New turf can still be laid in mild weather. Check greenhouses, clean and fumigate to get rid of pests and diseases and insulate, install a heater if you are to overwinter plants. Remove fallen leaves from ponds, and stop feeding the fish.
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