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.