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We’re back with the latest instalment of the STIHL garden guide! This month, Jane Moore showcases jobs to do in your garden in November in the STIHL November Garden Guide video.
🔶 Making Leaf Mould
Collecting leaves in an important job, even though it’s a constant task as they seem to be falling forever. But the colours are beautiful!
Leaves have a use as well as being pretty, in that you can collect and compost them to make leaf mould. It doesn’t sound great but it is – rich and dense and just perfect for top dressing around plants or adding to shop bought compost for your plant pots next season. These leaves will take a while to decompose, so it’s a good idea to put the bags in a corner and forget about them. Alternatively, you can add leaves to your compost bin too, as long as it’s not too many at one go.
🔶 Making A Log Pile for Wildlife
This time of year is especially hard for wildlife, and the chances are it’s only going to get tougher, so take a bit of time now to create some new habitats. A log pile is about the easiest shelter to make, and it doesn’t need any tools or special equipment. All you need is a quiet corner of the garden, and some good-sized logs from deciduous trees rather than conifers. These will provide homes for all sorts of spiders, beetles, and insects, as well as larger creatures like mice and toads too. If you want to make it more elaborate then you can create a bug hotel with layers of cardboard, straw, tiles and so on but a log pile is perfect for my little space.
🔶 Tulip Bulbs
It’s sad, but all the bedding plants have faded now, so it’s time to plan ahead for next season! Tulips are brilliantly showy, and they’ll light up the garden from late spring into early summer. The only problem with them is that they’re not as tough as daffodils, they're less likely to come back and they’re more likely to get tulip blight and fade away.
Always use fresh compost when you’re planting in pots and look at the bulbs carefully before planting, throwing away any that look soft or diseased.
🔶 Planting A Winter Window Box
Refreshing a window box is easy enough to do without spending much money.
A popular choice is to use seasonal specials to give it a bit of colour over the winter. Try using plants like hellebores and ivies and plan to refresh your window box again in spring.
🔶 Growing Garlic
The main thing going on in the kitchen garden bed is clearing up, getting rid of all the finished plants. But, once it’s cleared, November is the perfect time to plant garlic, shallots, onions, and broad beans.
Garlic is also super easy to grow, as it grows from the cloves rather than from seed, and it doesn’t need any fuss. In fact, it’s best planted in the autumn, when the cold period through winter helps it to form a good-sized bulb the following year.
Break up the bulbs carefully and make sure you buy garlic bulbs from the garden centre or nursery rather than using sprouted supermarket garlic bulbs. These aren’t disease resistant like garden centre bulbs, and they might also be treated with an inhibitor to stop the bulbs sprouting in your veg rack.
Space the cloves fifteen centimetres or six inches apart, with the point about two and a half centimetres or one inch below the surface. Cover them up with a layer of fleece until they’re nicely rooted and they will be ready to harvest in late spring or early summer next year.
🔶Protecting Pots
A handful of horticultural fleece is also very useful for protecting all sorts of plants from frost and cold in the winter. Things like hessian, fleece and bubble wrap are great for wrapping pots, this protects the roots of tender plants (and the pot too) from frost. Don’t forget to turn off and drain down your outside tap too, and then protect it and any pipes from freezing.
🔶 Protecting Pots
You might think it’s the snow and frost that are the real killers for garden birds in winter, but the never-ending rain and short winter days that reduce their options for foraging are just as lethal.
Start putting out food for the birds now to help them stay healthy, but make sure your feeders and bird table are clean and scrubbed so as not to spread disease. Birds need high calorie content foods to help them through the winter so suet balls, insect and fruit cakes, an all-year-round seed mix, and even kitchen scraps like crumbled pastry and grated cheese will all be very welcome.
There’s always more to do in the garden, but that’s our round up of tips for November. Hopefully you’ve got some ideas. Do let us know what you’re up to in the comments, and don’t forget to subscribe to the STIHL GB YouTube channel for more ideas in December.
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We’re back with the latest instalment of the STIHL garden guide! This month, Jane Moore showcases jobs to do in your garden in November in the STIHL November Garden Guide video.
🔶 Making Leaf Mould
Collecting leaves in an important job, even though it’s a constant task as they seem to be falling forever. But the colours are beautiful!
Leaves have a use as well as being pretty, in that you can collect and compost them to make leaf mould. It doesn’t sound great but it is – rich and dense and just perfect for top dressing around plants or adding to shop bought compost for your plant pots next season. These leaves will take a while to decompose, so it’s a good idea to put the bags in a corner and forget about them. Alternatively, you can add leaves to your compost bin too, as long as it’s not too many at one go.
🔶 Making A Log Pile for Wildlife
This time of year is especially hard for wildlife, and the chances are it’s only going to get tougher, so take a bit of time now to create some new habitats. A log pile is about the easiest shelter to make, and it doesn’t need any tools or special equipment. All you need is a quiet corner of the garden, and some good-sized logs from deciduous trees rather than conifers. These will provide homes for all sorts of spiders, beetles, and insects, as well as larger creatures like mice and toads too. If you want to make it more elaborate then you can create a bug hotel with layers of cardboard, straw, tiles and so on but a log pile is perfect for my little space.
🔶 Tulip Bulbs
It’s sad, but all the bedding plants have faded now, so it’s time to plan ahead for next season! Tulips are brilliantly showy, and they’ll light up the garden from late spring into early summer. The only problem with them is that they’re not as tough as daffodils, they're less likely to come back and they’re more likely to get tulip blight and fade away.
Always use fresh compost when you’re planting in pots and look at the bulbs carefully before planting, throwing away any that look soft or diseased.
🔶 Planting A Winter Window Box
Refreshing a window box is easy enough to do without spending much money.
A popular choice is to use seasonal specials to give it a bit of colour over the winter. Try using plants like hellebores and ivies and plan to refresh your window box again in spring.
🔶 Growing Garlic
The main thing going on in the kitchen garden bed is clearing up, getting rid of all the finished plants. But, once it’s cleared, November is the perfect time to plant garlic, shallots, onions, and broad beans.
Garlic is also super easy to grow, as it grows from the cloves rather than from seed, and it doesn’t need any fuss. In fact, it’s best planted in the autumn, when the cold period through winter helps it to form a good-sized bulb the following year.
Break up the bulbs carefully and make sure you buy garlic bulbs from the garden centre or nursery rather than using sprouted supermarket garlic bulbs. These aren’t disease resistant like garden centre bulbs, and they might also be treated with an inhibitor to stop the bulbs sprouting in your veg rack.
Space the cloves fifteen centimetres or six inches apart, with the point about two and a half centimetres or one inch below the surface. Cover them up with a layer of fleece until they’re nicely rooted and they will be ready to harvest in late spring or early summer next year.
🔶Protecting Pots
A handful of horticultural fleece is also very useful for protecting all sorts of plants from frost and cold in the winter. Things like hessian, fleece and bubble wrap are great for wrapping pots, this protects the roots of tender plants (and the pot too) from frost. Don’t forget to turn off and drain down your outside tap too, and then protect it and any pipes from freezing.
🔶 Protecting Pots
You might think it’s the snow and frost that are the real killers for garden birds in winter, but the never-ending rain and short winter days that reduce their options for foraging are just as lethal.
Start putting out food for the birds now to help them stay healthy, but make sure your feeders and bird table are clean and scrubbed so as not to spread disease. Birds need high calorie content foods to help them through the winter so suet balls, insect and fruit cakes, an all-year-round seed mix, and even kitchen scraps like crumbled pastry and grated cheese will all be very welcome.
There’s always more to do in the garden, but that’s our round up of tips for November. Hopefully you’ve got some ideas. Do let us know what you’re up to in the comments, and don’t forget to subscribe to the STIHL GB YouTube channel for more ideas in December.
🔶 STIHL Website: stihl.co.uk
🔶 Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/stihlgb
🔶 Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/stihl_gb
🔶 Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/stihlgb
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