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Top Gardening Jobs for Autumn: Essential Tasks for a Healthy Garden

Andrew White

Andrew White

Rhino's Gardening Enthusiast & Greenhouse Expert

From harvesting fruit and vegetables to clearing up leaf litter, pruning, planting and dividing, there are plenty of autumn gardening jobs to carry out before cold weather arrives.

Autumn is a season of preparation, of cutting back and composting, of making space and preparing your garden to bounce back beautifully in the spring.

As summer tails off, September may still feel warm, but when October brings a change in the weather, you’ll need to start protecting plants from frost and preparing your garden for winter. With the arrival of November, it’s time to start caring for trees and getting new shrubs in the ground.

Here’s a run-down of the most important autumn gardening jobs, to help you maintain and improve your outdoor space as the seasons shift.

Vegetable garden maintenance

Harvesting late crops

Late August into September is when you see the fruits of your labour on the vegetable plot. Keep picking tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and beans to help the last of them ripen.

Clearing spent plants<