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This video explains the essential gardening tasks to complete in autumn to prepare plants and soil for colder weather.
I cover maintenance work, plant care, and simple preparation steps that protect plants, improve soil condition, and make the next growing season easier and more productive.
Helpful for gardeners wanting a clear plan for seasonal garden care.
This video can support articles about autumn gardening, preparing the garden for winter, seasonal garden maintenance, plant protection, and beginner gardening advice.
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jobs to do in your a lotment in
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September. Well, yes, we're now in
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September and it's the weekend. So, what
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jobs can we do this weekend down at the
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a lotment? Well, things will start dying
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off now. And I've noticed that the
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pumpkins are dying off. They're early
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this year as well as obviously the sweet
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corns being early. So, obviously look at
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harvesting your pumpkins. You know that
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the pumpkins are ready. If the stems
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have gone brown on them, that means that
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they're ready to harvest and obviously
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they're ripe as well. So that is when
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you harvest your pumpkins. Obviously
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harvest the rest of your sweet corn if
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it's ready. And also start looking at
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your eating apples and your pears as
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they will start to get ready. Mine
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aren't quite so ready yet. They're still
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not big brilliantly yet. So I'm waiting
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for them to swell up for a bit. We've
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had some really
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harsh rain here and hopefully that will
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make them swell and get a bit bigger.
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But you know when apples and pears are
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ready as you'll just like lift them and
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they'll just snap off the branch. That
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is when they're ready. You shouldn't
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have to pull them off the branch to
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harvest your apples or your pears. That
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is when you know when they are ready. So
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also start doing that. Obviously,
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people's tomato plants may start dying
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off in like poly tunnels and green
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houses. Once they've finished and they
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start dying off, take them out, put them
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in your compost pile, get off any old
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tomatoes, and yeah, harvest all them
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because you don't want to be leaving
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them in the greenhouse because that can
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cause diseases for next year. So, you
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want to get the plants out of there as
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fast as possible. Start looking at your
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spring bulbs everywhere that you go at
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the moment. You'll see spring bulbs
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everywhere. You'll see them in shops.
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You'll see them in garden centers.
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You'll see them online. They're all
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advertising spring bulbs, but don't
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plant them yet. You can buy them, but
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obviously store them somewhere dry and
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cool. And don't plant them till end of
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October, November time. That is usually
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the best time to start planting your
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spring bulbs. So, don't get carried away
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and don't start planting them yet. Also
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start looking at getting your garlic and
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your winter onion sets as they're all
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available in the garden centers now.
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I've just been and bought my garlic and
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I've ordered my onions.
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We'll be planting them towards the end
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of September, but use the next few weeks
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in starting to prepare the beds. Build
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your beds if you need to build them. If
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you need to construct them, get some
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manure in there. Start getting that
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rotting down for a bit and get some feed
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in there cuz all the summer plants will
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have used a lot of the nutrition in the
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ground. And yeah, get them get the food
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back into the ground ready for growing
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this winter time for the garlic and the
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onions. You need to plant your garlic
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around October, November time because it
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needs the cold weather to help develop
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the garlic bulbs to get them to
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create the clove itself. So it needs the
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cold weather. You don't grow them
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through the summer. You grow them
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through the winter. And then usually
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they're ready around June time. So that
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is your task for this weekend. Everyone
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get looking at getting some garlic to
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grow. If you're new to a lotments and
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you've got a
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a lotment what's covered in weeds, get
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that area sorted and then at least
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you're growing something to start over
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the winter while you concentrate on
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clearing down the rest of your plot over
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the winter months. I don't grow much
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myself through the winter. I grow my
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Christmas potatoes. I grow my um garlic.
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I grow my winter onions and possibly
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some shallots as well. So that is all I
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tend to grow through the winter period.
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So if that's what you want to get done
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this weekend, write them jobs down and
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join along with me as I get ready for
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winter myself as I start clearing all my
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plot, getting it all tidied, and getting
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it rebuilt ready for next year's season.
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