• Tidy the garden of fallen leaves
• Lift , divide and replant herbaceous plants any time from now till early spring if soil conditions permit.
• Cover ponds with netting to keep out leaves.

Lawns

• Trim your lawn, when the ground is not too wet. Lift the blade to leave about 3/4" of grass as a minimum.
  
• You can aerate your lawn in late September or October. A garden fork works well for this. Rake sand into the holes to improve drainage.
• Autumn is the best time to eliminate weeds from your lawn. Because weed seeds are not a problem during the winter months, your lawn has a golden opportunity to grow and fill in the patches where the weeds had flourished.

Containers

• Plant winter pansies
• Remove fading flowers regularly.

Annuals and biennials

Perennials

Roses

• Reduce in size bush roses and train ramblers.
• Remove crossing stems to prevent disease.
• Take cuttings and plant in a slit trench. These will be available for planting on in a year.

• Plant groundcover, flat or gently sloped areas are best.
• Take cuttings from buddlehia and plant in slit trenchs, or into 6" pots.
• Consider adding some trees and order for November planting.
• Arrange to have oversize trees reduced in November.

Vegetables

• Cut down asparagus foliage and mulch area with manure or compost.
• When leaves are yellow, cut down jerusalem artichoke plants.
• Harvest chicory, ready for making chicons.
• Lift remaining root vegetables for storage.
• Plant winter lettuce.
• Plant out spring cabbages.
• Cut down peas and runner beans, leaving roots in the soil.
• Burn brassica stumps to prevent spread of clubroot.
• Cover root crops with straw or dry leaves to protect from frost damage.
• Dig a compost trench for next years runner been bed.

Herbs

• Prune back flower heads on shrubby herbs.
• Mint, take root cuttings of mint now ready for a spring sowing.
  

• Fit greasebands to apple, pear, plum and cherry trees. Don't forget the stakes.
• Pick all remaining apples and pears for storage before it frosts.
• Prune currants and gooseberries.
• Cut off remaining strawberry leaves and compost them.
• Prune out old canes of blackberries
• Lift and replant rhubarb.

• Remove shading now the days are getting shorter.
• Take down greenhouse vines and lay them on the borders.