Find out some more great garden tips for the Autumn season.
Every year give the outside of your greenhouse a good wash. General grime and algae accumulates on the glazing, reducing the amount of light getting through to plants inside. Use a hose and a stiff brush, slowly spraying and brushing every glazing panel in turn. Choose a warm day to complete the job.
Insulate your greenhouse using bubble polythene. Choose grades made especially for greenhouses, as these contain UV stabilisers which prevent them from breaking down in daylight. In addition use sheets of white polystyrene to line the glazing under the staging. This also reflects extra light back into the greenhouse.
Make light work of your autumn leaf collection by investing in a vacuum for the garden. Many have an internal shredder blade fitted that chops up the leaves as they pass into the collecting bag. This helps to speed up decomposition into friable leaf-mould.
This is the time to dig over the vegetable plot. Instead of clearing the old leaves to the compost heap, dig a trench and bury them. They will soon rot down and you have done the digging as well.
Don’t walk over the lawn after a heavy frost. The crunching sound you hear is the blades of grass snapping. After the frost goes you will be left with yellow patches where you stepped.
When planting trees and shrubs add some slow acting fertilizer to the planting hole. Bone meal or fish meal is available over a long period and will get the plants off to a good start.
Lift some roots of parsley and trim off the leaves. Pot them up in a soil-based compost and place on the kitchen window. It will regrow with foliage to last all winter.
