JOBS TO DO THIS WEEK

Pot up prepared hyacinth bulbs, left, and paperwhite daffodils to force for Christmas – they make wonderful gifts and house plants.

Apples are ready when you can gently tug them from the tree.

Plant biennials such as honesty and foxgloves to flower next year.

It’s still warm enough to grow ‘cut and come again’ salad crops or grow under cover to have green leaves to harvest in winter.

Take semi-ripe cuttings of evergreen shrubs, eg. hebes, camellias, choisya, holly, laurel and box, as well as herbs such as rosemary and lavender, and conifers. Choosing healthy material, right, cut about 4 to 6 inches in length, just below a leaf, and pot up as soon as possible. You can also do hard wood cuttings of roses now.

While the weather is still pleasant, do a bit of a tidy-up of fallen leaves and plants that have died back. Net ponds before leaves start falling.