Gardening - jobs for the week ahead

Continue to feed and deadhead hanging-basket and container plants – they will often keep going until the first frosts.

Keep deadheading annuals and perennials to extend their performance.

Deadhead penstemons, dahlias and roses (pictured) to encourage more flowers.

Divide herbaceous perennials as the weather cools and water in the new divisions.

Prune any late-summer flowering shrubs, such as the rock rose (helianthemum).

Prune climbing roses and rambling roses once they’ve finished flowering (unless they are repeat-flowering varieties, in which case leave them until later in the year).

Keep harvesting crops. If you have a glut of fruit and veg, try freezing, drying, pickling and storing so that you can benefit from them later on.