1 Plant dwarf bulbous irises for winter colour.
2 Tidy your pond by deadheading marginal aquatic plants and removing excess growth from submerged oxygenating plants.
3 Check for reversion on variegated shrubs and trees and remove all-green shoots.
4 If your potatoes are small due to dryness in early summer but rain has now fallen,
encourage them by dusting fertiliser between the rows and hoeing in.
5 Pick over bedding dahlias to remove any seedheads, which helps to keep the plants in flower.
6 As fruit ripens on trees, their weight increases. Check over the branches to see if any need support.
7 Earth up French beans to the bottom leaves and feed weekly with quarter strength liquid manure until the crop is finished.
8 Pinch out the growing tips of wallflowers to make the plants bushier.
9 Remove the growing tips from greenhouse tomatoes to encourage the fruit to develop more rapidly.