- Raise containers onto pot feet to prevent waterlogging.
- Clear up fallen leaves – especially from lawns, ponds and beds.
- Plant out winter bedding.
- Stop winter moth damage to fruit trees by using grease bands around the trunks.
- Now is the ideal time to plant fruit trees and fruit bushes.
- Put out bird food to encourage winter birds into the garden.
- Bring hose pipes, sprinklers and other watering equipment inside before they get damaged by frost.
- Protect newly planted and vulnerable plants from rabbits with tree guards or a chicken wire fence.
- The stems of autumn-fruiting raspberries can now be pruned back to soil level.
- This is the best time of year to plant bare-rooted hedges.
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