Garden Checklist: 10 Tasks You Need To Do In Late Autumn 

I so wish BBC's Gardeners World was as helpful and informative to amateur keen gardeners as this always is! Great video, as always!

I love your videos Ben, not just because your enthusiasm is infectious but also that you don't assume anything and just show us how to do something properly with simple explanations and no waffle!

Thank god there are still things to do in the garden in november. My mental health would suffer otherwise 😅

Not just the beginners - your videos offer something for EVERYONE! I've been gardening for 40 yrs or so and I just learned from you that peppers are perennials. Might be too late for this year but I'm definitely going to try digging up and overwintering. Always something to learn. Many thanks!

I was literally going to search "how to prepare my garden for winter". Thanks for the video!

Great video! Would like to add that if you cut the autumn fruiting raspberries about 5 nodes down of the lowest fruit setting, you'll get a double harvest next year, as they'll then bear fruit both in June as well as September/October. Tried that for the first time last year and it worked amazingly well!

Ha I was looking at my dirty hands(from planting some of my winter crops)as I was listening to your very poetic description of autumn gardening!!Great channel

I'm a novice when it comes to growing veg, so I find your videos a great help. Your enthusiasm is infectious.👍

Thank you for continuing to work hard and post these videos. They have been a tremendous help, not only in my garden, but in my mind. Please keep up the great work!

Thank you Ben. Your videos gave me hope for life this morning not only regarding gardening. They are ...wonderful.

Meanwhile, in Florida, the garden is in full swing with the fall tomatoes and peppers reaching peak production and the winter staples coming along nicely. Greens are being harvested daily. Still waiting on enough cool weather for the carrots and beets to be happy.

Another excellent video Ben!!! And YES!!! Winter makes amazing things happen to our fruits and veggies… My absolute favorite time of the year to garden is winter. Last winter, I had some lettuces that were insane right after I let a frost kiss them (I took their row covers off on a night I knew was going to frost). I lost several plants, but the ones that survived were seriously righteous… Sweet, bright, incredible flavor, and that lasted for almost three week before they returned to normal. I have a tropical greenhouse that I grow things that normally don’t grow in the winter… (tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, peas, onions, radishes, corn, etc.) So I had some of the best fresh green lettuce salads I have ever eaten… In the middle of winter…. I wish I could eat salads like that year round, but the only time I can is in the winter. Which is exactly the time of year that most don’t think it’s possible… You can only get the incredible sweet bright clean flavors like that in the winter, it doesn’t happen at any other time. The frost or snow triggers it… I grew up on an organic farm in Washington State, right next to the Canadian Border. We grew about 80 acres of apples… Occasionally, we got some frosts that would happen right at the end of harvest on some of the later harvesting apples. Some of those trees would react to the frosts and create what are called sugar cores… The insides of some of the apples would turn clear like glass, right around the apple core. And it was magic… Super sticky sweet, clean bright flavor, the best apple you couldn’t even imagine. Not every apple would become a sugar core, but a lot would. On those rare days, I ate nothing but those sugar core apples all day long. Picking apples on a freezing cold morning is miserable… But if there were sugar cores as a result, then I wouldn’t miss that for anything… They were soooooo good. I don’t garden to get dirty hands… I garden for the fruits and veggies… And in the late summer and all through the fall, I am scheming and setting up my winter garden… Row covers, low tunnels (that can be removed at just the right time), Accompanying veggies and herbs in the tropical greenhouse. Brassicas that will get buried in snow, lettuces and greens that will be kissed by frosts, etc… Some will die, many won’t transform, but if I get lucky, I get a few successes. I love fresh fruits and veggies, but in the winter, I am obsessed with frost kissed, snow sweetened, cold brightened veggies of all kinds. It’s hard to make it happen, but when it happens, it’s so worth it.

Love these vids, always remind me of what being English is

great vid! really useful. Also you replied to every comment in person! appreciating your dedication to communication

Love me some dirty fingernails! Need to get my apple harvest in now too. Had a huge crop. Thanks for such fun programs! Bless you

I don’t know how some people keep so clean while gardening!😅 I always look like I’ve rolled in mud and brambles 🤓

Waiting on the GrowVeg & ChilliChump collab to get those chili peppers behaving correctly ;) Edit: Just caught the Elton John bit too. Going to need more of that.

Yes, (part of) winter is the only rest time we get 😂

I started using one of these (similar) about 25 years ago for road rescue They were from TFT.

My own list of things to do in November for my newly built house & the back yard which will become my veggy garden is: 1: get an estimate for gravel in the back yard (done). 2: find a pro inspector to help me with close of escrow walk-thru (done). 3: monitor progress on completion of the cellar insulation & wall-board aka sheet-rock (in progress). 4: set up a woodshop in the cellar (to do). 5: buy lumber (to do). 6: measure & cut lumber (to do). 7: assemble 5 gal bucket growing racks (to do). 8: obtain buckets & drill holes in the bottoms (to do). 9: mix garden soil & peat & fertilizer (to do). 10: sprout indoors the potatoes & onions & carrots & tomatoes & corn (2024 springtime). 11: move the growing veggies outside into the wooden racks (summer 2024). 12: water. 13: harvest. 14: store in cellar. 15: replenish soil with fertilizer. 16: EAT !!!

Absolutely love your energy and passion for the subject, and you were on top form in this video....I love to get down and dirty with my compost 🤣🤣

Not a tip for autumn but seeing your hard wood cuttings made me think of my discovery of the year. Side shoots from tomato plants root extremely easily allowing many plants from one. I came across this by accident after leaving a Sun Gold side shoot in a part filled watering can by mistake! Having discovered the roots growing I potted the new plant on and it soon caught up with it’s parent. I did the same with Magic Mountain, Gardener’s Delight and Gourmandia, all rooted and all gave plenty of fruit despite a late start. I paid over £1 per seed for some of this year’s selection so maximising production in this way made me feel better about prices paid. Perhaps this method of reproduction is well known but I have never come across mention of it despite some decades of tomato growing 😀

You're a wonderful teacher.

I liked the tip about using bottles on sticks so you don’t poke your eye out. I used sticks this year and noticed the hazard they can be. The other thing I don’t like to see is rebar sticking up for PVC piping. I don’t think people realize if the pipes aren’t there and you fall it could be disastrous. I prefer to either clamp onto a board or just sink into the ground. I wish I could sink my hands into soil, but with eczema it’s impossible. Never wore gloves much before, but now a necessity. Noticed a lot of talk about overwintering peppers with mixed results. Don’t have the space for it in a cool area and actually looking forward to a break as I’m not much for houseplants. Edit: the one area I’m totally confused on is pruning fruit plants/trees. We have cold winters and believe all our pruning is done late winter. And berries are even more confusing because some bloom on first year canes some on second year canes and of course there is the confusing names of primo and flora-canes respectively. Apparently there are two ways to prune everbearing or again (fall bearing)🙄-some mow them off, some cut out the canes that just fruited. And I guess the idea is that everbearing can fruit some in summer with main crop in Fall. Then there is summer bearing which fruit on second year canes. It’s a debacle.

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November 1st, was our first frost/freeze here in Sylacauga Alabama (zone 7B), with 13 hours of freezing temperatures and a low of -3.3C. It was cold enough for long enough to kill off my pepper plants, basil, and zinnias. The rest of my garden is doing great. My pepper bed is covered with a layer of chopped leaves. I am harvesting assorted lettuces, Pak Choi, Late Nagasaki Cabbage, and turnips. The Navone Gold Rutabaga roots are starting to swell, and a few garlic cloves have sprouted. Soon, my tatsoi, and kohlrabi will be ready to harvest. Inside my polytunnel, a new generation of turnip seedlings are doing great. My potted comfrey are thriving, and my winter tomatoes, 3 Early Girl-bush and 4 Tiny Tim are healthy, but the Tiny Tim seedlings are growing slower that I like. The Seascape strawberries in my GreenStalk tower are still producing, and should continue producing berries until mid-December. Next on my list is moving nine grow bags, and strategically locating them in different areas of the garden. They will be exclusively used for planting pollinators, zinnias, marigolds, and cosmos. My herb garden is moving to a mound of soil near my front porch, except for mint, spearmint, and peppermint, which will remain in containers. I already have lemon thyme established in it, and will be adding comfrey, Greek Oregano, dill, and assorted basils. Other than watering, feeding, and harvesting, my fall/winter garden is on autopilot. In January, my garden starts anew with seed starts, plus 250 additional seed starts for a spring plant sale. A new batch of cool weather crops will go in the ground (raised beds) around the 20th of February, and potatoes during the 1st week of March. So, I can look forward to two months of relatively easy gardening.

This is great information for a new beginner like myself, and I am sure many others! Thank you!

‘’I love getting dirty with the compost in the garden’’ True!😂 Me too. I just need to explain to my students and pupils that my nails have been brushed to their best , the next days! Boy, it s hard to get rid of soil inside nails!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing Sir... Very nice...

Great videos. Great guy. Dont stop dude (and hope you get paid well for all your great videos and hard work)

HivBen, I dudnt realise I can over winter my sweet peppers. Thanks for the tip, great video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

No gloves for me either brother!😂💚

Your soil looks fantastic.

Best channel for great advice for seasonal gardens. I've got to get busy cleaning my garden off and spreading my horse apples ! I'm excited for next years harvest. Less than 200 days until Spring !!!

You are so witty! I love watching your garden videos.

Love your video, thanks for sharing

Mmmmmm Yea I’m gonna try peppers next year Thanks man You making gardening fun

great tips for the berries :D problem here is that everything is so wet and humid and cold! I've been waiting to get a bit dry to work on the garden. Thanks for your tips!

Had little to no success with parsnips this summer, From sth west ireland Great show

Thanks for this great info.

Great video! Thanks and Happy November gardening!!

Nice video. I prune my autumn raspberries only every second year because they will produce in summer on two year old rods and again in autumn on the one year old rods. But after the second year I cut them all down and the next year I'll only have the autumn crop.

Awesome info!! Thank you!

Ben you are a treasure!💚

Great video, thank you 👍

Very timely!

Thank You! Love from Michigan!

❤thanks Ben

Fab as always ✌️❤️

Thank you!

Thanks Ben. My 21 year old son frowns on me for getting my hands dirty in the garden. He just isn't there yet!! I tell him compost is gardeners black gold. Given time!!!

Yayyy ! Thanks for another amazing video! ❤😊❤

Woohoo! New video!!! 🙈😜

I don't use cardboard for composting anymore because recycled ones cam contain chemicals. So November is leaf collection time for me! Honestly using natural browns like leaves and dried twigs has given me superior compost anyway, so much better than what the shops offer.

If you've never tried it I recommend 'Foul Medames' pronounced fool me-DAH-mes, is an awesome breakfast made with Fava beans, simple and super delicious, also super healthy! I recommend the Lebanese style over the Eygptian style, but it's a very flexible dish and all are pretty great, it's very popular in the Middle-East generally.

Your videos are so informative and inspiring❤

Love your videos Ben, the enthusiasm is so real and infectious!! Thanks for the suggestions and tips.

Fall and winter are also a good time for research and planning for the upcoming spring.

that was and awesome video I hope to get started again next spring with the tasty vegetable unfortunately my garden beds are already put to bed for the winter

I have already added my layer of horse manure onto my garden bed. I do this every fall. I do have to do some weeding in the spring because of this, but I always have such good crops.

today will all be about collecting as many apples from our orchard as possible whilst its dry! i need to seriously thin out our autumn raspberries but probably in Jan/Feb when I prune them down. I planted about 20 almost 3 years ago but its now a forest that cant get to them all!

Thanks Ben…..I sort of lost my growing mojo, but you’re an inspiration 🙏

Good morning Ben, a lovely garden chat with lots of information on how to prepare and tidy up. Must try some broad beans next season. Ignorance is bliss, the first time I planted them I cooked them like normal green beans 👎that is enough to put you off vegetables forever!! Never mind we survived :) Many blessings. Kind regards.

Another great one mate got my garlic and Broad beans in 👍💪

Great Tips Ben. Didn’t realise the you could take cuttings from the fruit trees so will try that

What a lovely talk Ben; you really get me enthusiastic to get in there! I have sown the garlic (and Feve) (was hoping to get elephant garlic this year) but the cloves are so small! I can't see it will be bigger this year - I pickled some of my garlic last year and then 'honeyed' it and as it is ready to use I use it in any dish if I can't be bothered to peel any. Will have to deal with those fruit canes!

Read somewhere that you can cut back your chilli plants as you mentioned and wrap the pot and plant in bubble wrap and it should overwinter in the greenhouse..... Tempted to try this as last time I brought plants inside we had an infestation of fungus gnats...

Harvesting Sunchokes, Romaine. Planting onions. Ohio zone 6

Thank you for all the great tips! I've started on many, but it's a lovely sunny day and good time to finish out the list. I think it's also a good time to stock up on potting soil or other spring soil components now. Prices seem always to go up and you'll get a jump start in spring. I have a large area of blackberry canes, that I'd like to prune (if needed) and harness into some kind of order. They're each about 10 feet/3 meters long and unruly in my small garden. Do you have advice on how to prune them and suggestions for putting them in order? As always, thank you for sharing your garden wisdom!

Hi Ben, I love watching your video's, you are inspirational!! I have two questions for you, how do I get rid of couch grass - clay soil? I have created raised beds like yours all new and fresh with cardboard base and plenty of home made compost but it still grows through and impossible to keep on top of, it grows through everything giving me a very poor result for my veg. And where did you get your metal arches from? I love them!! 🤩

I love your videos. But I have to laugh a little. Here in Texas it’s still 29 degrees Celsius!😂. I’m trying to grow my winter crops but the weather has other ideas. I guess I’ll just have to wait a few weeks. Thanks so much.

Howdy Ben!👋

Always lots to do at this time of year isn’t there 🤦🏼‍♀️. 5:11 why do you put the cuttings along the edge sand not in the middle? Great video as always Ben, happy gardening 👩‍🌾 Ali 🌧️🇨🇦

Love the vid. Your parsnips! I pulled a few I grew as a first timer a week or so back and they looked identical to yours. Their shape surprised and amused me and my good lady and you’ve just made me feel much better about my efforts 😂. Irrespective of shape they tasted great.

Good tip with the plastic bottles, this summer i poked a bamboo cane straight thru my pants. Luckily i dident end up inside of me

Great video Ben. Regarding peppers - do you have a video about growing them by any chance? Mine fail year after year. I grow them in a polytunnel as my climate is too wet to grow them outside but, no matter what I do, they don't either don't produce any fruit or fail to grow altogether.

You on one today.😂😂😂😂❤

I've brought 4 aubergine plants in, put them in the conservatory. First year I've bought plants rather than grow from seed - didn't get one single fruit. Are they worth saving now I've brought them inside? Peppers & chilli's inside as well - Yr 2. Love your videos, I'm only in Yr 3 so they've been such a help. Thank you 👍 x

I love your videos. So helpful. I’m wondering about spreading compost now. I’m in a north pacific climate, which is milder winter but with very much rain (similar to the UK?) and worry that if I apply compost ow, the good stuff will be washed away with all the rain. Any thoughts on that? THX

Thanks Ben, hope rosy is ok with the fireworks. I have some horse manure that’s not rotted yet, it does have bits of grass growth, do I need to wait if I’m not using the bed to plant until spring? Or can I put it on and the frost will kill things off and rot it down? I’ve got compost too so I could put compost over it if that will help. I’m doing no dig so it will go on cardboard thanks xx

Good tip about overwintering peppers. Will this give me an earlier crop? Should I repot them into a larger pot now or wait till next year and if so when?

Awesome video! Can I add old Halloween pumpkins to my compost?

Amazing how much

I've used plastic fruit trays for seed sowing, especially those that contained grapes, which my daughter loves, that are slightly deeper than the example Ben showed. I do find that the top of the compost tends to turn green and sometimes seeds do not germinate. Would a covering of grit help, or could I be overwatering?

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Great video … wondering if there is a problem bringing pests indoors with your overwintering plants? Would love to keep my pepper plants over winter

sligtly watering,, I never did over winter plants so how much water and how long far apart for my strawberries ? thank you

Can you do the same over-wintering technique for tomatoes?

5:59 lol

I planted garlic into a tub which took and have nice shoots but something keeps pulling them out! I have replanted 3 times (including today) but not sure for how long this will be viable. Any ideas or suggestions to prevent this? I've tried relocating the tub to a different area. Thank you

I feel like when I use bagged manure I get more pest or seeds won't germinate. I think I will just do compost this year.

When you say potting mix, is this just a normal box standard compost ?

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Will parsley and oregano, etc not survive the winter in their outdoor location then?

Question…is it possible to save seeds from fruit where the plant died from frost? Squash and melons

Can you just trim back peppers and mulch them over in the ground

Wait a minute, why can't I kill two birds with one stone by using my lawnmower bagging attachment? I could bag up all my fall leaves and grass clippings from our last mow of the season and then dump the whole lot into my cleaned-up garden bed in late autumn. We live way up north so we have tons of deciduous leaves (hence the investment in a bagging attachment) and can have no activity in the garden from December through March due to snow cover anyway. Together with the grass, wouldn't this make the entire garden a compost heap that would decay all winter and into spring? Then we use up all our used up yard bits once a year and avoid having an ugly and possibly stinky heap. I bet we'd have enough stuff for a pile a few feet deep anyway, would this work?

Hey stupid question from novice Could you do tell us about planting daffodils

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