The gardening job you must do NOW before the temperature drops – and it’ll protect your plants in winter

The Sun's Gardening Editor, Veronica Lorraine, has shared the jobs you request to tackle successful October.

"It’s a bully clip to trim deciduous hedges - similar box, yew, hawthorn, hornbean and beech - positive hedge trimmers are a large precocious assemblage workout!

Make leafmould - stitchery up each the fallen leaves and capable either bin bags oregon integrative bearer bags. Seal the top, instrumentality a fewer tiny holes successful the container - and past store for a twelvemonth oregon more. Free compost!

It's improbable you’ll get immoderate much reddish tomatoes truthful person 1 last harvest and chuck the plants connected the compost. See if you tin get the greenish ones to ripen by putting successful a drawer (some accidental with a banana). Also support the seeds from a mates - and works again adjacent twelvemonth if they went well.

Finish getting successful your outpouring bulbs. Ideally you’d person done daffs and alliums, but tulips are amended successful the crushed erstwhile the ungraded somesthesia gets a spot colder. 

It’s bully to permission immoderate works litter successful the crushed - it adds to the nutrients arsenic it rots down, and provides structure and nutrient for insects. But region the manky brownish bits collapsing each implicit the lawn/winter structure. 

Mulch - it not lone suppresses weeds, but keeps the ungraded warm, improves h2o retention and adds a small wintertime duvet to your extracurricular space. 

October’s a bully period for carrots, peas, asparagus, wide beans, and rhubarb."

Gardening experts implicit at Toolstation have revealed the plot laws you request to beryllium alert of not breaking.

While immoderate of these laws could onshore you with a good of up to £20,000 successful utmost cases, a affable chat with your neighbours can usually resoluteness immoderate issues.

Tree removal and pruning: If you person a histrion successful your plot you privation to get escaped of you amended deliberation doubly and bash your research.

The gardening experts reveal: “If 1 neighbour wishes to region oregon heavy prune a histrion that the different neighbour values, disputes tin originate implicit the interaction on the view, shade, oregon privacy. "

While it mightiness origin a row, if it is successful your spot bound it is yet your choice, unless it has a Tree Protection Order connected it.

“But, immoderate trees whitethorn beryllium protected by a Tree Protection Order which makes it an offence to uproot, apical oregon destruct them, the experts warn.

The maximum good for breaking this instrumentality is £20,000, truthful marque definite you treble cheque if it does person a TPO.

You tin find retired by contacting your section assembly for a representation that shows this information. Alternatively, you tin inquire to talk with your section histrion officer.

Property boundaries and fences: One of the main causes of neighbours falling retired is done arguing implicit spot boundaries and fencing.

To debar this situation, the gardening pros urge checking the deeds of your spot to find the close boundaries

“Most of the time, it’s casual to find who owns the obstruction arsenic the obstruction posts volition usually beryllium connected the owners side," they add.

“Additionally, the tallness of fences oregon hedges tin origin disputes betwixt neighbours if 1 enactment feels the tallness has exceeded the 2 metre guidance.

"Hedges and fences should beryllium nary much than 2 metres high, and you could beryllium asked by the assembly to instrumentality them down if a neighbour complains astir the height.

"Luckily, standard fence sizes are little than 2 metres gangly truthful you shouldn’t person a problem.”

Garden structures and additions: A pergola is the cleanable summation to a plot if you privation determination to unbend successful the shade.

But if it obstructs your neighbour's presumption oregon violates section gathering regulations it could origin a dispute, arsenic tin sheds and different plot structures.

“If you’re not sure, person a chat with your neighbours to fto them cognize what you’re readying and, if there’s an issue, get successful interaction with your section assembly who tin springiness you much guidance," counsel the gardening experts.

Overhanging branches and plants: “When branches, vines, oregon roots from 1 neighbour's histrion oregon works widen into the neighbouring property, it tin pb to disagreements implicit imaginable harm to structures, blocked views, oregon the load of maintenance," uncover the pros.

However, it's important to enactment you tin lone trim overhanging branches up to the bound of your spot otherwise, it could beryllium seen arsenic trespassing.

You tin ascent into the histrion to transportation retired the enactment if needed, but lone connected your spot and marque definite to enactment connected your broadside of the obstruction if you don't person support to participate your neighbours garden.