Fall Outdoor Task List

• September

  • Harvest ripened fruits and vegetables from your garden.
  • Take out any spent vegetable or annual plants from your garden and dispose of them. 
  • Clean up fallen fruits, twigs, and leaves around your landscape.
  • Apply a high Nitrogen fertilizer to your lawn if needed.
  • Dig up any non hardy bulbs (like dahlias or cannas) and store them in a cool dry place.
  • Plant spring blooming bulbs later in the month.
  • Bring your houseplants and tropical plants back indoors to overwinter.

• October

  • Continue mowing lawn as needed

  • Remove any dead annual or vegetable plants from your garden and dispose of them. 

  • Continue to water any newly planted trees, shrubs or perennials until the ground freezes

  • Rake up any fallen leaves.

  • Harvest pumpkins and squash before first frost.

  • Move and divide perennials as necessary.

  • Cut down dead perennial foliage and stems as needed. 

  • After the killing frost, clean up vegetable and annual beds

• November

  • Winterize your roses
  • Rake up fallen leaves and clean up fallen fruits around your landscape.
  • Prune out any diseased or dead branches from trees and shrubs.
  • Move and divide perennials as necessary.