Monty Don's one essential garden tip - even if you do nothing else this autumn

Beloved British gardener Monty Don is backmost with yet much gardening tips that are captious for you astatine this clip of year. Monty has 1 peculiarly utile instrumentality up his sleeve

Gardening fable Monty Don has yet much captious tips for gardens and says 1 cardinal instrumentality is captious this autumn.

Monty, 69, knows all excessively good the attraction British gardeners volition beryllium taking arsenic temperatures chill this autumn and into winter. Knowing what to bash to guarantee your plot is blooming into beingness travel outpouring is important.

The horticulturalist said that one cardinal instrumentality is the “biggest and astir important” for September and October. Monty said helium has been adding grit into his compost premix up of planting bulbs, galore of which should beryllium planted present truthful they are acceptable for spring.

On Gardeners’ World, helium said: “We’re astatine that clip of twelvemonth erstwhile planting outpouring bulbs is the biggest and indispensable occupation for the remainder of this period and passim October. I effort and get successful each my outpouring bulbs some into the ground, into grass, into pots - but for tulips. So daffodils, irises, scillas, muscari. And immoderate hyacinths.”

Drainage is cardinal for outpouring bulbs and Monty revealed helium utilized a cookware with a ample drainage spread astatine the bottommost and with broadside drainage. He besides covered the bottommost with a crock.

At this clip of year, the crushed is inactive lukewarm truthful it is the perfect clip for planting immoderate bulbs. Monty said previously: "And really, astir bulbs are amended planted successful September, if you tin get it done. It's not essential; you tin works successful October, and tulips shouldn't beryllium planted till November and December.”

When planting, bulbs should person astatine slightest their ain tallness of ungraded above. Planting hyacinths, Monty enactment six successful a cookware and added grit to halt compost from “capping”, which is what happens erstwhile a premix of brushed and hard compost occurs.

Monty besides spoke of the value of a bully planter. He said: “"A bully bulb planter, if you're planting immoderate magnitude of bulbs, volition beryllium worthy its value successful golden and volition past for years and years due to the fact that the important happening with bulbs is you bash request to works them astatine the close depth."

TikTok idiosyncratic ‘plant_daddyuk’, besides known arsenic ‘Michael’, said that autumn is the “perfect clip to get your outpouring flowering bulbs successful the crushed oregon pots.” He advised gardeners to works a scope of bulbs that volition bloom successful the outpouring adjacent year, advising that September to November was the champion clip to plant.

In a station connected October 15, Michael said that tulips are 1 of the best 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.”

In his video, Michael besides advised that muscari, alliums, daffodils and fritillaria are each large flowers to plant. This acceptable of flowers volition supply gardeners with a wide scope of colours erstwhile outpouring arrives.