This month is probably the last chance to finish planting evergreen shrubs – and to complete planting spring bedding.

Finish harvesting apples (pictured) and pears before the birds make a meal of them or they fall and rot.

Lift and store any threatened summer-flowering bulbs and dahlias – unless you want to gamble on them surviving a winter outdoors, underground.

It's a good time to start harvesting your apples.

Clear fallen leaves; leaving them covering the garden encourages the spread of disease and provides homes for many pests.

Lift and divide overgrown clumps of rhubarb.

If the weather allows, dig over empty beds and borders.

Lift and divide big clumps of summer-flowering herbaceous perennials.

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