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NOVEMBER GARDEN TASKS

Plant spring-blooming bulbs now for easy spring color!

  • Clean up dying annuals  Replace with winter-bloomers like violas and cyclamen.

  • Rake up leaves on ground and remove leaves from the top and inside of plants.

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  • Weed Oxalis and annual blue grass is showing up...keep pulling them up regularly before they bloom!  

  • Get soil prepared if planting bare-root plants like roses, fruit trees and berries.  Better to prepare soil before it gets too wet...bare-root plants go in the ground in a few months when soil might be too wet to work.  Mail order companies are taking orders for bare-root plants for winter delivery.

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  • Still time to plant spring-blooming bulbs...crocus, daffodil, freesia, iris, narcissus and others.  

  • Sow seeds of spring-blooming annuals such as Clarkia (farewell-to-spring), Nigella (love-in-a-mist) and sweet peas

  • Plant or transplant shrubs, groundcovers and frost-tolerant perennials.

  • Still time left to divide perennials like Agapanthus, daylilies and shasta daisies  Pull up plant with shovel or pitchfork, ease roots or bulbs apart. Replant.

  • Dig up and divide dahlia tubers if needed.

  • Remove spent blossoms on all flowering plants.

  • Turn off irrigation once rains begin If a dry winter (no rain for two or three weeks) turn water back on.  


  • Vegetable and Fruit Garden

    • Plant bok choy, broccoli, brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, garlic, kale, lettuce and spinach from nursery starts.

    • Sow seeds of beet, carrot, onion, pea, radish, swiss chard and turnip.

    • Control peach-leaf curl Spray peach and nectarine trees with copper sulfate after leaves fall.

    • If not planting a winter garden clean up summer garden, cover with cardboard and add mulch or compost on top. In the spring you will be ready to plant with minimal weeding and soil prep.


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