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and kalanchoePick peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and other greenhouse crops regularly to encourage further flowers to develop

Train cucumbers and prune back sideshootsPick off flowers on coleus to maintain their colourful leavesWater tomatoes regularly to prevent fruits from splittingTake cuttings from fuchsias, coleus, pelargoniums, marguerites and other tender perennials

Deadhead pelargoniums and other summer bedding plantsSummer prune wisteria, cutting back whippy sideshoots to about 20cmWater plants in pots and basketsTake cuttings from shrubs choosing non-flowering shootsCollect seed from flowers that you want

Pick off leaves infected by rose blackspot or rose rust, and dispose of them in your dustbin and not on the compost heapSet up an automatic watering system with a drip nozzle for potted plants if you're going on holidayTop up water levels in ponds

perennials and bedding plantsCollect seed from any flowers you fancy propagatingTrap earwigs among dahlias with upside-down pots stuffed with straw and balanced on canesPick leaves off plants affected by rose blackspotTrim conifer hedges and evergreen hedges

Pick plums as they ripenEase onions from the soil with a fork to prepare them for harvestingFinish pruning trained forms of apple trees like cordons, espaliers and fansWater crops regularly, especially during hot weatherLift marrows

Place poinsettias in the total dark for 14 hours a day to encourage colourful bracts to form, moving into full light for the rest of the dayWater indoor cyclamen after their summer rest to encourage new growthPlant lachenalia and veltheimia bulbsPick off the lower

Deadhead border plants, unless you want to collect their seedsSpray gladioli to prevent thrips damage to leaves and flowersPick herbs and everlasting flowers for dryingBuy or build compost bins to help recycle all your kitchen and garden wasteCollect seeds

Rake autumn leaves from lawns and pick them out of bordersPlant new climbers and shrubs into soil that's well dug over and enriched with compost Spray Michaelmas daisies with fungicide to prevent mildewCut down annuals when they've faded, adding them

Pick ripe apples and store the best in fruit cratesDig up strawberry runners and pot them upNet autumn raspberries and blackberries to protect them from birdsLift and dry maincrop potatoes and store in paper sacks in a cool, dark placePot up a few