Around the garden job checklist - week 40

• Use a fork or hollow-tined aerator to spike your lawn and improve drainage
• Dig up and pot up tender perennials to bring indoors for winter protection
• Raise the cutting height when mowing the lawn
• Apply an autumn lawn food
• Cover ponds with netting to stop leaves falling in
• Remove pumps and filters from ponds and water features
• Empty ceramic and glazed pots to store under cover for winter
• Collect fallen leaves smothering alpines and other plants
• Order roses, hedging and fruit trees for winter planting
• Retrieve plant supports from flower beds, clean and store away

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