Don’t you sometimes wish that you had a garden expert on hand to tell you exactly what you need to do in your garden, and when you need to do it? Well, we heard you and we answered!
In this week’s episode of our new series about seasonal gardening jobs, Ben takes us through 10 essential tasks to do in your garden in October, from what to cut back, to what to order next and what to prepare for. Follow along and keep your garden in tip top shape all year round.
For more on storing apples, watch this next:
Want to protect your crops from the cold? This is for you:
Got too many green tomatoes? Here’s what to do with them!
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A question on leaf mould "production". Can I site a wire "cage" for leaf mould on a concrete base? Or does it need to have soil underneath? (I have no spare room except a dead-end path available to site a cage on).
Excellent tips. Thank you! I have good luck with ripening late season tomatoes and peppers indoors on a table. My problem this year is an infestation of fruit flies. Do you have suggestions on how to combat those? This indoor location is my best option, but I'd like to EXCLUDE fruit flies. Thank you for any and all ideas!
It's magical to me that this morning I discovered a ~6 inch tall volunteer tomato plant in a shady, out of the way nook of the yard. It definitely had to have come from a seed that hit the ground there literally a year ago (last fall that's the area where I chopped up all of my tomato green matter). It sat there all of last winter, all of this spring, all of this SUMMER, and then decided to pop up within the the last week or two. I am so tempted to dig it up and bring it inside and make it my "winter tomato" – even though that's not something I ever do.
Im new into gardening. How do i protect my plants from cold weather?
Can you store carrots and root crops in vermiculite or perlite instead of potting mix?
Is it too late to start growing tomatoes? I never grew anything before and would like to start by sprouting some tomato seedlings.
Good video, once again, thank you! βπ»ππΌ
It looks like you don't really care abosut spilling soapy water all over your plants.. interessting… π
brilliant video my friend !
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[ Cover Winter Salads ] 0:21
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[ Cure Squashes ] 1:55
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[ Ripen Green Tomatoes ] 2:35
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[ Lift Root Crops ] 4:21
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[ Pick & Store Fruit ] 5:30
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[ Clean Glass ] 6:22
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[ Order Garlic ] 7:06
[ Rake Up Leaves ] 8:16
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[ Cut Back Peren-nials ] 9:51
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[ Make More Compost ] 10:38
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π₯£π« Fantastic!!!!!!!!
With tomatoes just remove all the leaves apart from too 2. This scares the plant life cycle is over and to ripen qiuckly before pkant dies…… i never believed it till i did it. Within 3 days i had at least a quater of all my tomatoes changing to redπππ
Wow, so informative and enjoyable. I am glad I found your site.
You are so right about garlic. I was at a garlic festival last month in Stratford Ontario π¨π¦. 300 varieties of garlic! I planted my garlic just yesterday (Zone 6) and I'm looking forward to big bulbs like I had this year. π
Wow – all the time Iβve already saved myself by not being organised enough to plant any winter salad leaves and not owning a greenhouse or even a cold frame! π
3 times i fertilised a lady flower on my pumpkin plant and the slugs ate them every time π
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Are you related to Alton Brown? The chef
Why separate leaves from other compostable material?
I just mix it in the general compost, usually combined with manure.
Little bit off topic haha I have just taken out my tomatoes from the green house can I plant my spring cabbages where they used to be ?
Wow. Your garden is lush. It's so dry over here in Texas. Your garden feels cool and refreshing to me.
I would love to know where you get your wire panels for your bean and pea supports, Ben, i am so envious!
It would feel great if you titled you very useful video as – β β¦ mid autumnβ¦β after all you are on a global platform
Thank you so much, i love you channel, so many tricks to know ! Sad the volume is low on this one π
very very helpful! thank you!!