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Monthly Gardening Tips / October
Planning:
- Assess areas in the garden which need additional
planting
- Continue to use garden notes and photographs
to plan for future plantings
- Prepare landscape sketches for next season
Chores and Maintenance:
- If rain is lacking continue to thoroughly
water trees, shrubs, planting beds and lawn
areas, especially evergreens
- Compost fallen leaves and garden debris
such as annuals and spent vegetable plants
- Continue to weed, weed, weed
- Complete staking chrysanthemums, water and
fertilize
- Lift and store tender bulbs, i.e., cannas,
dahlias and gladiolus after first frost
- Core aerate to reduce thatch on lawns
- Mow lawns to 1½" height
- Keep bird feeders filled
Planting:
- Complete planting and transplanting broad-leaved
and needle-leaved evergreens before October
15, and water thoroughly
- Plant and transplant deciduous trees and
shrubs after leaf fall between October 15
and December 1
- Plant spinach and garlic
- Plant ornamental cabbage and kale
- Complete lifting and dividing iris, lily-of-the-valley
and daylilies
- Pot up parsley, chives and rosemary to grow
indoors
- Plant bare-root roses
- Continue to plant spring-flowering bulbs;
begin planting tulips before month's end
- Pot up amaryllis, tulips, and other prepared
bulbs and store in a cool, dark place until
ready to force
Pruning/Fertilizing:
- Complete pruning of rambler roses
- Prune late-flowering shrubs and trees when
dormant
- Fertilize deciduous and evergreen shrubs
- Fertilize lawn with 3-1-2 plant food
Indoors:
- Bring in all houseplants before frost
- Hold off on fertilizing houseplants; resume
in March
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