- Identify and finish fall transplanting and dividing work
- Keep planting trees, shrubs and perennials until the end of the month
- Plant bulbs when soil cools, starting mid-month
- Test and amend soil in problem spots
- Begin cutback of frosted ferns and other perennials that mildew, blacken or drop leaves
- Let birds enjoy seedheads
- Pull spent annuals and vegetable crops promptly
- Freshen containers with a fall look
- Keep watering if there is not 1″ of rain per week (see fall watering guidelines)
- Dial back irrigation systems to a fall schedule and plan to shut off completely by end of the month
- Begin leaf cleanup and consider shredding leaves on-site for reuse in garden beds as mulch
- Structural pruning of small trees and shrubs can begin after leaf drop at end of the month
