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Get in touch General enquiries Mon — Fri 9am — 5pm All contacts » Sign up to our newsletter. Help us achieve our goals Make a donation. Join the RHS today and support our charity Join now. Things to do now Jan Recycle your Christmas tree by shredding it for mulch Ventilate the greenhouse on sunny days Dig over any vacant plots that have not been dug already Disperse worm casts in lawns Inspect stored tubers of Dahlia, Begonia and Canna for rots or drying out Feb Prepare vegetable seed beds, and sow some vegetables under cover Chit potato tubers Protect blossom on apricots, nectarines and peaches Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep the birds off Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering Mar Protect new spring shoots from slugs Plant shallots, onion sets and early potatoes Plant summer-flowering bulbs Lift and divide overgrown clumps of perennials Top dress containers with fresh compost Apr Keep weeds under control Protect fruit blossom from late frosts Tie in climbing and rambling roses Sow hardy annuals and herb seeds Start to feed citrus plants May Watch out for late frosts.

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Patio Plants. Cottage Gardens. If you have any decorative plant pots that aren't frostproof. Empty them of all soil and store them in the shed, greenhouse or garage. Empty hanging baskets that are past their best and replant with winter flowering pansies, primulas, cyclamen and variagated ivy, to create a winter show of flowers. Try and keep hanging basket chains as short as possible in the winter to prevent the basket being blown about too much. Plant or move roses.

They like plenty of sun and a clay soil. Leave 60cm 24in between plants to allow air circulation, which will reduce the chance of infection.

Replace summer bedding in borders with winter flowering pansies, polyanthus, wallflowers, myosotis, tulips and daffodils bulbs. Order bare rooted roses.

Ordering now and planting in the next few weeks will allow them to start to get established before the winter frosts, but will mean that you don't have to keep watering them through the summer. Plant apple and pear trees. Check and adjust any stakes on young trees and remove stakes on any trees that have been planted more than 3 years. In the veg patch: transplant out spring cabbage, thin swede seedlings to 30cm 12in apart and cover winter lettuce with cloches, obviously this means that they will need to be watered from time to time.

Protect half-hardy perennials from frost with straw, newspaper or netting. During autumn and winter, indoor plants will require less feeding and watering.

However as the temperature drops outside, the central heating goes on and the temperature in the house tends to go up, so whilst it's a good idea to keep your pot plants on the dry side and not water them too often, you should check a couple of times a week to ensure they haven't totally dried out. Oh and if you have a water spray bottle, hold the plant over the sink or bath and give the foliage a quick little squirt don't do this to hairy leaved plants like African violets.

Frosts are likely, bring house plants indoors, move tender plants under cover. Don't go and buy an indoor small watering can, I find that the kettle does just as good a job, but obviously not after it has just boiled!!

Apply grease bands to the trunks of apple, pear, cherry and plum trees to stop wingless moths climbing into the trees to lay their eggs. Female codling moths fly, so grease bands are ineffective against them, hang pheromone traps in the trees in the spring to trap the male moths. Put cloches over late autumn lettuce seedlings. Once herbaceous perennials have finished flowering and die back, remove and clean plant supports. Apply manure and dig over heavy soil in the autumn. Don't worry about breaking down large lumps of soil as the winter frost should break these down.

Prune blackcurrants, cutting stems that have fruited down to strong new shoots. Reduce number of stems in the centre of the bush. Take hardwood cuttings of shrubs.

Taking care of lawns and flowers borders. Shrubs that flower this month. Continue protecting plants from frost. Collect leaves to make leaf mulch and tidy-up and dig over borders ready for winter.

There is plenty of time from now until the end of December to plant spring bulbs. Also save money on trees and shrubs by buying bare rooted stock now ready for planting in early spring. Protect tender plants by bringing them into the greenhouse or covering with horticultural fleece or straw.

Moving potted plants against a sheltered south facing wall can also protect them from mild frosts.