Job of the week

Take verbena cuttings

Now's the perfect time to take cuttings from your borderline-hardy perennials, such as verbena, to replace any that may get cut down by frost in the winter.
Takes just 45 minutes

Flowers

  • Plant daffodil bulbs in pots and borders
  • Check roses for suckers and cut off any you find
  • Trim conifer hedges

Fruit & veg

  • Keep picking summer-sown salads
  • Plant garlic cloves outside or in modular seed trays
  • Cover herbs like basil and parsley with cloches

Greenhouse

  • Take root cuttings from Japanese anemones and oriental poppies
  • Pot up prepared hyacinths into bowls for indoor displays
  • Pot up rooted cuttings taken in summer and early autumn

Around the garden

  • Lay new turf and re-sow bare patches of lawn
  • Pot up colchicums into decorative containers
  • Put up bug boxes to provide places for beneficial insects