Weekly jobs

●● Plant window boxes and pots for winter ●● Apply or renew grease bands on the trunks of apple and pear trees ●● Sow parsley and chervil for use in late winter and early spring ●● Support tallgrowing clumps of asters or they’ll be blown down in windy conditions ●● Cut down the stems of herbaceous perennials and lift and divide clumps which are becoming old and bare in the centre ●● Lift maincrop potatoes on a warm, sunny day and leave them on the surface of the soil for an hour or two to dry out ●● Sow lettuce seeds in shallow drills and cover with cloches ●● Pick pumpkins, marrow and squashes, which can be put into storage and should keep until well after Christmas. ●● Plant out some of the runners of your strawberry plants to increase your stock ●● Start to clear garden debris in borders, putting it on the compost heap or disposing of it if diseased