- Prune cane fruits such as raspberries and blackberries (except everbearing raspberries).
- Plant winter pansies and fall annuals (calendula, dianthus, ornamental cabbage and kale).
- Divide peonies. Be sure to have 3-5 eyes per division. Plant with eyes no deeper than 2” below soil.
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs.
- Divide bearded iris and perennials and plant new ones.
- Plant bare root trees and shrubs.
- Plant herbs and ground covers as the weather cools.
- Save seed pods of flowers that you would like to propagate.
- Take cuttings of bedding plants like geraniums, fuchsias and heliotrope. Do the same with shrubs and bush fruits, too.
- Prune summer flowering heathers, and give hedges a final trim.
- Pull up tomato plants by the end of the month and ripen indoors any unripened tomatoes.
- Sow winter vegetables (lettuce, swiss chard and kale).
- Order new fruit trees and bushes and prepare soil by digging in compost and manure.
- Remove yellow leaves from water plants. Remove, clean and store water pump.
- Plant rye grass as a cover crop for your vegetable garden to restore nitrogen to the soil.
(Thanks to June Meyer, and to Bob Tuckey from The Natural Gardener)