Garden Tasks For Early Winter

Winter has arrived. It is predicted to be a warmish winter ahead. I hope this prediction comes true. Although the cooler days have allowed everything in the garden to slow down in its growth. This slow down has included the weeds and the lawn growth which I’m quite happy about.

I love this slow down in our garden as it will give me a chance to get on top of a few things. I’m aiming to have all the weeding completed, whipper snip all edges and start the winter pruning on our deciduous trees.

Here are a few more garden tasks for this time of year;

Start to dig my Dahlias. These will need to be lifted, divided, washed and store your Dahlias (see this blog post for all the tips)

Continue planting out winter crops in the veggie garden – I just planted out more leafy greens like a Mesclun mix, Asian mixed greens, rocket, lettuce in a frost protected area. Also plant out carrots, broccoli, broad beans, cauliflower and beetroot.

Spring bulbs – get them in NOW. I have finally planted out my 200 plus daffodil bulbs last week – a little late but should still be ok. This year I have planted them out in groups along the edge of the front lawn. This should hopefully prove to give us an amazing display of their yellow trumpets come spring.

Get on top of all mowing and weeding now growth has slowed down.

Prepare beds for bare rooted trees and roses that should be available later this month and next month.

Continue to take cuttings or division of perennials such as sedums, society garlic and all the salvias

Start the winter pruning on your deciduous trees

Pick your olives. Ours are the “Manzanillo” variety and they are ripe now for the picking. After picking we will also do a light prune on the trees.

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