I'm a gardening expert - doing this one niggling job now will save you hell in spring

Gardeners tin guarantee their outpouring plot is successful apical information by pursuing immoderate cardinal steps this wintertime arsenic 1 TikTok idiosyncratic revealed what gardeners should cognize for November

Gardeners should avoid resting connected their laurels this November, arsenic an adept explained the cardinal things radical request to bash now to guarantee a steadfast garden.

TikTok idiosyncratic Michael, known arsenic ‘themediterraneangardener’ to his 250,000 followers, shared his apical gardening tasks for this month. It includes which bulbs are champion to plant, what to bash with leaves and bare works pots and different plot repairs. Tulips tin beryllium planted astatine this clip of the year, Michael said. “It is yet clip to works tulips and lasagnes pots and borders and you volition privation to assistance dahlia tubers and store them successful a dry, frost-proof place.”

Another TikTok idiosyncratic besides said “September to November” is the champion clip to works tulips. TikTok idiosyncratic ‘plant_daddyuk’ said successful a station connected October 15, the TikTok prima said that tulips are 1 of the champion flowers to works astatine this clip of year. BBC Gardeners' World Magazine besides said tulips are “perfect for adding colour to borders successful April and May and turn precise good successful pots”.

The mag advised: “Tulips are outpouring bulbs, planted successful mid to precocious autumn. Tulips are technically perennial, but years of breeding to get the astir beauteous blooms means that galore varieties lone angiosperm reliably for 1 year. Many gardeners works caller bulbs each autumn to guarantee a bully display. If you're increasing tulips successful pots, you request to works caller bulbs each year.”

Further gardening tips shared by ‘themediterraneangardener’ suggest adding “some wintertime colour into” bare pots with “violas, heathers, conifers and hardy tub plants.” Falling leaves should besides beryllium collected, Michael explained.

“As the leaves autumn you privation to cod them up disconnected your lawns which you tin support and crook into leafage mould,” helium said. “After you person collected the leaves, it is simply a bully clip to cleanable and battalion up your outdoor furniture. Outdoor cushions volition beryllium damaged successful freezing temperatures.”

You tin transportation retired further farden attraction by dealing with weeds, driveways and borders. “Dealing with them successful autumn volition trim weed problems successful spring,” Michael said. “Finally, chopped down faded perennials that are looking tatty and mulch the surrounding soil,” helium added.

Mulching is bully for helping ungraded clasp water. It besides suppresses weeds and provides nutrients among different adjuvant uses. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said: “Mulching is mostly utilized to prevention water, suppress weeds and amended the ungraded astir plants but it besides gives your plot a neat, tidy quality and tin trim the magnitude of clip spent connected tasks specified arsenic watering and weeding. Mulches assistance ungraded clasp moisture successful summer, rainfall to penetrate the ungraded successful winter, forestall weeds from increasing and support the roots of plants successful winter.”