Friday 12th October 2012
- Take cuttings of roses and root them outdoors in a sheltered spot.
- Fork over and clean up ground vacated by harvested vegetables.
- Move evergreens and conifers growing in the wrong place.
- Sow sweet peas outdoors in a sheltered spot.
- Continue to harvest and store apples and pears.
- Cut out blackberry canes when they have finished cropping and tie in new ones.
- Continue to plant spring-flowering bulbs.
- Make new lawns by sowing seed or laying turf.
- Sow lettuces, spinach and turnips and plant out spring cabbages.
- In the greenhouse, sow annuals in pots for a spring greenhouse display.
- Dig up and store potatoes, carrots and beetroot.
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