Each season I like to make a big list of gardening jobs to do during the coming months. This keeps me on track and also gets me excited about certain jobs too! Of course I never get them all done and this year has been especially hard since we are expecting another baby and so I’ve been a bit more tired than usual. Nevertheless I hope to get quite a few of these autumnal gardening jobs completed this year and hope it inspires you too!

38 Autumnal Gardening Jobs

1. Order in bare-root trees for planting in winter
2. Cut back lavender
3. Scarify the lawn
4. Plant blackberry/blueberry and raspberry plants in containers
5. Plant fruit trees
6. Wildflower patch-sow yellow rattle 
7. Plant spring bulbs-allium, grape hyacinth, crocus, narcissus, hyacinthus, 
8. Update windowboxes and store terracotta containers incase of early frost and cracking.
9. Plant Bamboo
10. Plant an elder bush
11. Plant winter interest shrubs for scent eg.Daphne
12. Plant garlic out (for harvest hune-august)
13. Grow tree from a seed.
14. Plant shallots and hardy onion sets outside for overwintering.
15. Semi-ripe cuttings
16. Windowbox of herbs –rosemary, sage, bay etc.
17. Root cuttings aneome (November)
18. Harvest fruit and preserve
19. Make leaf mould
20. Save seeds
21. Bring tender plants indoors
22. Plant roses
23. Hardwood cuttings (October)
24. Deadhead (Oct)
25. Create a hedgehog house
26. Protect plants
27. Storing and using the harvest
28. Dry flowers
29. Forcing Indoor bulbs (hyacinth, amaryllis, narcissi)
30. Prepare beds for next spring-weed, mulch
31. Transplant spring cabbage outside
32. Sow cauliflower
33. Sow broad beans, carrots and peas to overwinter
34. Plant rhubarb plants
35. Sow pansy
36. Sow hardy lettuce undercover for winter
37. Sow oriental radish
38. Sow spinach, chard undercover