What to do in your garden during October

Plant & Sow

Annuals

Sow all summer flowering annuals such as :

Vegetables

• Water your vegetable garden every three to four days and pull out unwanted weeds by hand.

Sow vegetables like: 

Fruits

• Thin out bunches in the grapevine where necessary.
• Cherries and Peaches ripen in October
• Cape gooseberries start sowing seed this month.

Garden Maintenance

Fertilize

Fertilize fruit trees like:

• Fertilize Summer-flowering bulbs and keep them moist.
• Fertilise annuals and bedding plants with a liquid fertilizer every 14 days.
• Mow the lawn if necessary.
• Mulch the garden beds.