• Plant spring bulbs: Buy and plant daffodils, crocuses, and hyacinths now for spring color
• Add shrubs and trees: Autumn is the best time to plant woody plants so they establish roots before winter
• Plant autumn containers: Refresh pots and hanging baskets with winter-flowering pansies, violas, cyclamen, and heathers for instant colour
• Sow hardy annuals: Plant seeds like calendula, cornflowers, and poppies directly into the soil now so they bloom earlier next summer
• Plant autumn onion sets: Put onion and garlic sets into the ground now to give them a head start for a mid-summer harvest next year
• Move perennials: Divide and replant crowded perennials like hostas and daylilies

• Mow regularly: Cut your grass on a higher blade setting as growth slows down
• Feed the lawn: Apply an autumn lawn fertilizer with less nitrogen and more potassium to strengthen roots for winter
• Repair patches: Sow grass seed on bare spots now while the ground is warm and damp
• Clear fallen leaves: Rake leaves off the grass weekly to prevent damp patches, moss, and lawn diseases from developing
• Scarify to remove thatch: Gently rake away the dead moss and thatch that built up over summer to let your lawn breathe
• Aerate compacted soil: Spike lawns with a garden fork or aerator to let air, water, and nutrients reach the root system

• Collect seeds: Save seeds from your favorite flowers in paper envelopes for next year
• Clean greenhouse glass: Wash greenhouse windows to let in maximum winter light
• Harvest crops: Pick your final tomatoes, apples, and beans before the first frost arrives
• Ripen green tomatoes: Trim away excess leaves around outdoor tomato plants to let the autumn sun reach the fruit, or pick green ones to ripen indoors on windowsill
• Lift and store root veggies: Dig up maincrop potatoes, carrots, and beetroots on a dry day, let them dry in the sun, and store them in breathable paper or hessian sacks
• Prune fruited canes: Cut summer-fruiting raspberry canes down to the ground once they finish producing, and tie in the new green canes for next year

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