Key task
Gather foliage and berries, such as ivy, pyracantha berries and crab apples to make a Christmas wreath on a birch twig loop.
This month’s round up…
If you’re outdoors pruning this month, keep an eye out for buff-tailed bumble bees feeding on winter clematis or honeysuckles, while birds such as blackbirds and robins will be searching for the last of the berries.
Prune
■ Apples and pears
■ Autumn-fruiting raspberries
■ Blackcurrants
■ Climbing roses
■ Deciduous trees
■ Gooseberries
■ Greenhouse grapevines
■ Wisterias
Plant
■ Amaryllis (hippeastrum) bulbs – indoors
■ Bare-root roses
■ Deciduous shrubs and trees
■ Evergreen shrubs in containers
■ Tulips
■ Winter bedding
Sow
Indoors
■ Corn salad (lamb’s lettuce)
■ Mustard greens
Outdoors (under cloches)
■ Hardy broad beans
Harvest
■ Brussels sprouts
■ Celeriac
■ Celery
