With the arrival of October and early November, gardening thoughts start turning towards ignoring the garden and leaving the clean-up until spring.
But there still are a number of gardening tasks that can be carried out on the pleasant autumn days—right up until the ground freezes.
Certainly yard and garden clean-up should be at the top of the list. Dead vegetable and flowering annual plants have been accumulating, and all the leaves from trees will be coming down soon!