• Harvest late summer veges; pumpkins, marrows, potatoes, onions. Store in a cool dry place.
  
• Sow seeds of beetroot, broccoli, broad beans, cabbage,carrots, onions, radish, spinach, swedes and turnips.
  
• Transplant seedlings of broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, leeks, lettuce, silverbeet and spinach.
  
• Earth up leeks.
  
• Protect young seedlings from slugs and snails with Quash or Blitzem.
  
• Sow vacant areas of the vegetable garden with a green crop such as blue lupin or mustard for digging in later.
  
• Offset winter rain by planting vegetables in raised beds.
  
• Rhubarb can be divided and replanted into compost enriched soil.
  
• Plant potatoes in frost-free areas.
  
• Plant parsley and perennial herbs.
  
• Most fruit trees should have been harvested by now with the exception of late fruiting apples. Start your winter clean-up programme by spraying trees with Champ DP fungicide before pruning. Sharpen all pruning tools to make
  the job easier. 

• A busy month for tidying up summer flowering annuals. Replace with primulas, cinerarias, nemesias, iceland poppies, calendula, stock, pansies, violas, polyanthus, penstemon,
  snapdragon and hollyhock.
  
• Sow seeds of aquilegia, alyssum, calendula, cineraria, cornflower, dianthus, English daisy, godetia, linaria, livingstone daisy, lobelia, lupin, nemesia, snapdragon, statice, stock sweetpea and viola.
  
• Continue planting spring flowering bulbs.
  
• Dead head roses as autumn flowers finish. Plan new rose plantings and give existing roses a side dressing of fertiliser.
  
• A good time for planting trees and shrubs. At planting time add a long term fertiliser such as Osmocote or Magamp to the soil.
  
• Prune shrubs that have finished flowering.
  
• Lift, divide and replant perennials.
  
• Plant pots with autumn and winter flowering annuals such as pansies, primulas, polyanthus, stock, antirrhinums and spring flowering bulbs.

     LAWNS

• This is the best month for sowing new lawns and rejuvenating existing ones. Superstrike range of lawn seed allows you to select the seed type most suitable for your conditions.
  
• Control broadleaf weeds in lawns with Turfix.
  
• Apply Palmers Lawn Fertiliser to all existing lawns.
  
• Control weeds with Turfix Lawn Weed Spray.
  
• Mulch all trees, shrubs and roses with Tui Organic Compost.