What needs to be done in the garden, in flower beds and in the garden in October.

The list of works in the country in October

October is the second month of autumn, and the hassle does not become less. (We need to have time to harvest the late harvest - the first frosts begin, ice appears on the water. It's time to prepare for winter.

signs of october

Foliage from birch and oak begins to fly around at the same time - by the harsh winter.

On Pokrov the wind blows from the east - the winter will be cold.

Thunder rumbles in October - the winter will be short, mild, snow-white.

In October, the first snow fell - in 40 days, wait for winter.

If the north wind blows on October 3, it will be cold, if the south - warm, if the west - sputum, if the east - a bucket.

October 14 - Veil, the wedding season begins. If the wind on this day is changeable, the winter will also be changeable.

Works on the lunar calendar for October

New moon. On the new moon, you can not plant and transplant plants, but this time is perfect for foliar feeding of domestic plants.

Waxing Crescent. Favorable time for planting and transplanting shrubs and trees, a good time for winter sowing. Take care of disinfecting greenhouses, transplanting plants and pruning bushes.

In the middle of the phase of the growing moon, you should rest for a couple of days - you can neither plant nor sow. And at the end of the phase, you can start planting bulbs and herbs for distillation and winter sowing. This is also the time for pest control.

Full moon. You can not engage in planting and seating plants.

Waning moon. The first few days of the waning moon are favorable for feeding seedlings and planting winter crops - garlic, onions, hyacinths.

The next few days should be devoted to the winter sowing of vegetables and flowers, as well as to carrying out sanitary work in the garden to clean and trim unnecessary plant residues. Use this time for watering and feeding plants - they will overwinter better, the main thing is not to touch the above-ground part.

At the end of the phase, the remaining crop is harvested, unnecessary branches are cut, excess shrubs and trees are cut down, and the site is put in order.

List of works in the garden and vegetable garden

They collect apples and pears that have not yet been removed, sort and store the fruits for storage. Bad fruits are harvested and burned along with the leaves. Also at this time, root crops of carrots, beets, radishes are harvested for winter storage.

After the leaves fall, the trees are treated with a 3% solution of Bordeaux mixture. It is also good to irrigate to the entire depth of the rhizome, which will serve as a good moisture recharge for the tree. It is necessary to insulate the root system of trees with manure, dry leaves and humus.

Early October is a good time to plant fruit trees a few weeks before the start of frost. Seedlings are planted in pre-prepared planting pits, where the soil will not be flooded in spring. The roots are covered with earth, compact the earth, water, protect against the penetration of rodents.

To scare away hares, 300 g of naphthalene, 100 g of copper sulfate, 2 liters of vegetable oil, 3.5 kg of soap and 400 g of turpentine are mixed, this mixture is diluted in 10 liters of water. The solution is applied to the bark.

If there are clutches of viburnum leaf beetle and hawthorn on the trunks, it's time to get rid of them. Infected parts are cleaned or cut and burned.

Winter sowing of vegetables

To get a good onion harvest next year, you need to plant a sowing onion with a diameter of 1 cm.

In October, the remaining crop of white, red, and Brussels sprouts is harvested.

October is a good month for digging up horseradish rhizomes. At the same time, the leeks are harvested. Dig up the onion, cut off the feathers, leaving the tip up to 20 cm, cut the root lobe, tie the onion into bundles. It is best to store onions in a cool, ventilated, dry and dark place.

Before frosts, the remaining spicy herbs and perennial onions can be transplanted into pots and transferred home, so that there will always be fresh greens in winter.

In October, the time comes to prepare the beds for the winter sowing of dill, radishes, carrots, parsley in the frozen ground. They store the earth for falling asleep seeds, make grooves 1 cm deep.

Although most of the crop has already been harvested, late cabbage still remains in the beds, which continues to grow. Therefore, it must be fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers and do not forget to water it.

Shrub care in October

This time is suitable for planting shrubs. Blackcurrants are planted with a slope, the roots are buried 8 cm into the ground. Gooseberries are planted without a slope and deepened only by 6 cm. In October, raspberry pruning is completed. The shoots of this year are carefully bent to the ground, fixed and covered so that they overwinter better.

Currants and gooseberries in October are spudded by 12 cm and covered with material.

Strawberries need protection if the beds with it are located on a hill. It is covered with shavings, sawdust, spruce branches or other covering material with a layer up to 15 cm.

Workers in the flower garden in October

In flowers with basal leaves (bluish aster, geyhera, carnations, gravilate, daylily, lupine, multi-petal, primrose, pyrethrum), leaves, faded stems are cut low.

In order for evening primrose to grow, it is necessary to cut the stems, leaving small rosettes with green leaves.

Iris leaves must be cut off, leaving a height of 15 cm. In the oriental poppy, the basal green leaves are not touched, only the stems are cut, the ground is loosened around and fertilized with compost to a height of 5 cm.

After the first frost, gonia tubers are harvested for winter storage. The begonia is well examined, the damaged ground part is cut off, the tubers with roots are placed in boxes and cleaned in a cool, dry, ventilated room.

Roses are being prepared for wintering. They are spudded, cut off the buds and tops of the shoots. After the first frosts, you can do late gladioli. Plants are cut from leaves and stem, leaving only 1.5 cm, the resulting bulbs are laid out in boxes with ventilation, set to dry at a temperature of + 20-25 ° C. After a couple of days, they put it for a week in a place where the temperature is about +35 ° C. When the bulbs are dry, they are cleaned and dried at a temperature of about +20 ° C for another 1 month.

This time is suitable for work with galtonia. It is necessary to cut the stem at the base, then dry the resulting bulbs for 1-2 weeks in a dry, dark, well-ventilated room. The dried bulbs are put in a cardboard box and stored at a temperature of up to 12 ° C.

You can also do acidantera. The stems are cut to the ground, the bulbs themselves are dried at a temperature of +20 degrees, then stored in a well-ventilated area.

October is suitable for perennial flowers that remain in the ground for the winter. In astilbe, aster, cornflower, columbine, gaillardia, gypsophila, delphinium, goldenrod, bluebell, coreopsis, lily of the valley, liatris, lily, lychnis, milkweed, monarda, peony, rudbeckia, scabiosa, yarrow, phlox and echinacea, cut leaves and stems, leaving only about 3 cm.

You need to do some dahlias. After the first frost, when the flowers are damaged, you can already dig up the tubers for winter storage. Dahlias unravel, cut the stems, leaving 10 cm, make a groove around the dahlia, dig up the tubers with a pitchfork. Carefully shake off the tubers and wash off the ground, dry a little. When the tubers dry, they are examined, small roots are cut off, damage and diseased areas are removed, the sections are sprinkled with crushed charcoal. Then the tubers are placed in a cool place with a temperature of up to +10 ° C for 2-3 weeks. Dried tubers are placed in a box lined with paper, sprinkled with sawdust, dry river sand, covered with paper on top. The boxes are placed in a cool and dry place with a temperature of +5 ° C and humidity up to 60%.

Clematis are removed and cut, leaving only a node from the ground. They also feed with fertilizer and sprinkle compost under the flowers.

Bulbous perennials (daffodils, lilies and hyacinths), prepared for winter, are covered with dry foliage, opiates and spruce branches, which will protect the bulbs from frost in winter. And spruce branches will still protect the bulbs from rodents.

Vineyard maintenance in October

After harvesting, it is time to fight pests and diseases, so the grapes are treated with drugs. Then strong seedlings from the school are planted, since at this time they are better accepted and develop the root system. Young shoots are covered with peat and spruce branches, old bushes are cut, laid in pre-prepared grooves. Cropped unsuitable plant parts of the vineyard are dried and burned.

At the beginning of October, there are several urgent works in the garden, the implementation of which is the key to good growth and development of plants next year. Have time to do everything!

Although it got colder, and outside the window it is either rain or wind, but the autumn garden is still good - colorful asters and chrysanthemums, scarlet "chokeberry", fire marigolds and tender oktyabrins replace the sun in the garden. And when the weather gets a little clearer, throwing on a jacket, the gardener is armed with either a pruner or a shovel - there is still a lot to do in October.

Before snow, it is necessary to prepare the site for wintering.

Planting trees and shrubs

The best time for planting deciduous trees and shrubs with an open root system is the period from the end of September until October 15th. Planting is best done in pits prepared in advance and filled with fertile soil and fertilizers (preferably 2 to 3 weeks in advance), since by the time of planting the soil has time to settle, and the fertilizers mix and dissolve.

Good survival of seedlings will ensure the use of root or heteroauxin when planting. To protect new plantings from freezing (in case of unexpected severe frosts), it is advisable to mulch tree trunks after abundant watering with peat chips or bark.

planting tulips

If the second half of September is the time of planting small-bulbous ones, then October is the time for tulips. According to a pre-developed planting plan, they begin to lay out the bulbs in flower beds, and then plant them. It is better to plant with a scoop or a special planter to a depth of about 10 cm.

Plant pruning

There are a number of plants that do not tolerate spring pruning (for example, maple, birch, actinidia). It is better to cut them in early October, since by this time the sap flow has ended, the plants are preparing for winter, and there will still be time for wound healing before the onset of stable frosts.

After leaf fall, you can cut currants, gooseberries, raspberries. At this time, they begin to rejuvenate the raspberry bushes, removing the fruiting stems.

Autumn digging tree trunks

The best time to complete this work is the beginning of the yellowing of the leaves, that is, before the active growth of the roots in the fall.

The depth of digging under trees is 8 - 10 - 20 cm (up to the level of suction roots, which is determined by the control excavation according to the crown projection), and under shrubs - 5 - 8 cm. Digging the soil reduces the number of pests that winter in the soil. Once on the surface, they die from frost.

top dressing

As a rule, digging of tree trunks is combined with fertilization. Most often this is done in September-early October. Fertilizer application rates depend on the type of soil, crop, age and condition of plantings.

Organic fertilizers are applied at the rate of 4-8 kg of humus or compost per 1 sq. area meter. Phosphorus and potash fertilizers are also applied: 30-40 g of superphosphate and 15-20 g of potassium nitrate or potassium salt.

On acidic soils, lime is added for digging 150 - 300 g per square meter. meter or wood ash - 300 - 500 g per sq. meter.

Podzimny watering

In autumn, the root system begins to grow intensively in trees and shrubs, and good watering is required for normal root growth. It is carried out, as a rule, in the second decade of October, taking into account, of course, the weather conditions, as well as the proximity of groundwater.

However, when choosing the timing of watering, you need to consider the following. If October is warm, then it is necessary to shift these dates to later, since a large amount of moisture, combined with good, warm weather, can have the opposite effect - the buds will begin to bloom, the secondary growth of young shoots will begin and the winter hardiness of the plant will drop sharply.

Watering is especially important if there was a dry summer and early autumn. Abundant watering is carried out to a depth of 50 - 60 cm, when the average daily temperature drops +5 - +2 C. It is called winter.

Winter irrigation is of great importance, since a large amount of moisture in the soil does not allow it to freeze quickly, thereby improving the wintering conditions for plants, minimizing the deformation of the root system and providing a sufficient amount of moisture in the spring.

Autumn spraying of plants

• if there were fungal diseases on the trees and bushes, as well as for their prevention, then it is a good idea to sprinkle them with a 6-8% solution of ferrous sulfate;
• spraying branches, trunks and soil under trees and bushes with a 1% solution of copper sulfate will also help against fungal diseases;
• if there was scab on fruit trees, then they are sprayed after fruit removal, but before leaf fall with a 4% urea solution.

Collection of fallen leaves

Fallen leaves must be removed both from the lawn and from the orchard. Leaves should not be left on the lawn, as the grass begins to deteriorate under the foliage with the onset of autumn rains.

If the foliage is healthy, then it can be composted, and if there are signs of fungal diseases, then it is better to burn such leaves. In the orchard, the carrion must be destroyed, since it is a source of infections on the site.

Lawn care

As a rule, the last mowing of the lawn is carried out on October 15 - 20, depending on the weather, the mowing height should be 1 - 3 centimeters higher than usual. Uncut grass should not be released into the winter, because during the winter the dead parts of the plants will cause the appearance of rot, mold and other fungal diseases.

However, it is not recommended to mow the grass just before frost, so as not to weaken it. After mowing, it is necessary to comb the lawn, thus removing dead felt, which interferes with the vegetation of plants in winter.

October Garden Decor Ideas

A bright pumpkin will be especially noticeable on a garden bench under an empty tree.

Large stones and boulders are mysterious in early spring and late autumn. The trimmed grass around will only emphasize their monumentality.

In the garden gazebo: throw a handful of bright beads or pebbles on a flat plate, put a couple of apples nearby - a simple still life will cheer you up on a cloudy day.

Dacha lunar calendar for 2011 Kizima Galina Aleksandrovna

What to do in October?

What to do in October?

1. At the beginning of the month, it's time to plant tulips and hyacinths. Make trenches with well-rotted compost. Then pour a layer of sand at least 2-3 cm (under the hyacinths, be sure to coarse). Spread out the bulbs and completely cover them first with sand, and then with any moisture and breathable soil for 2-3 bulb heights. High-moor peat is most suitable for this. Sawdust should not be covered, it is better to use sand.

I put a few granules of fertilizer under the bottom of each bulb Ava. It is very convenient to plant tulips in plastic slatted fruit boxes. To prevent weeds from growing inside the box, its sides can be lined with old plastic wrap, without closing the bottom to drain excess water and grow roots. Place the boxes in a trench on a layer of fertile soil 12-15 cm deep (the root system of tulips is small). Then pour sand into the boxes, spread the bulbs, placing fertilizer under the bottom of each. If you do not have the above fertilizer, add a teaspoon of ash and mix with sand. Fill the bulbs with sand, and cover the boxes with a layer of peat on top. Try to get boxes of the same size - then the trench can be dug the same depth. It is important that there is at least 10-12 cm of shelter above the planted bulbs. With such a planting, tulips can not be dug up for 4-6 years, and they will not “go away” to a great depth.

In order for a flower bud to ripen in tulips, a temperature of at least +20 ° C is required, so planting should be in the sun.

Hyacinths are not planted in boxes. They require annual digging and drying.

2. Usually in the fall it is recommended to dig tree trunks under trees and bushes to kill pests wintering in the soil. I repeat once again, this is not necessary, because digging destroys the soil. I don't dig. On the contrary, I fill up the near-stem circles with weeds and unripe compost, especially along the perimeter of the crown, where the zone of sucking roots is located. In the center, at the very trunk, there are no sucking roots that are damaged by frost. There are only a “water supply and sewerage” system, that is, conductive roots. They are as hardy as wood. I do not remove all the fallen leaves, but pile them into tree trunks, deeply burying pests.

3. I destroy pathogens and pests by late (at the end of October) spraying of trees and bushes with a solution of any high concentration mineral fertilizer. The easiest way to do this is to use urea, taking 500-700 g of fertilizer per 10 liters of water. If the leaves haven't fallen yet, spray directly on them. We must force them to give everything they have accumulated to plants and die. Spray the ends of the branches especially carefully - aphids lay eggs on them. Walk well through all branches, trunk and soil in near-stem circles. In early spring (late March), this procedure should be repeated.

4. If it is a dry autumn, the garden must be well watered. Plants that go into the winter dehydrated, especially year-old young growths, can dry out from frost.

5. At the end of the month, rotted manure and compost can be applied under bushes and trees. Under peonies and other perennial flowers - humus, but also along the perimeter of the crown, and not in the center. Under cherries and plums, you should additionally add half a bucket of ash.

6. At the end of the month, it is necessary to cut off perennial asters and chrysanthemums and also add ashes under them, at least a cup under the plant.

7. It's time to put shelters over roses, clematis, as well as peonies, oriental hybrids (lilies), chrysanthemums, irises.

8. In the last days of the month, you can hold an event to clean the trunks and branches from lichens. To do this, it is necessary to spray them with a 7-10% solution of ferrous sulfate (about 3 tablespoons without top per 1 liter of water). In just 3-4 days, the lichens will fall off on their own. Such spraying should never be done during the growing season.

9. Is it necessary to add manure or rotted compost to tree trunks? Organics, including manure, must be added after the end of sap flow, otherwise it may cause undesirable growth of branches at such a late time. But it must be introduced not into the near-trunk circles, but along the perimeter of the crown, where the sucking roots are.

10. What to do if at the end of summer you did not add phosphorus and potassium necessary for root growth? As they say, the train has left. Now these fertilizers make no sense. The only thing that can be done is to fertilize the soil Ava, because it does not dissolve in water and, accordingly, is not washed out of the soil by either autumn or spring waters.

11. You can dig up root celery, leek, and cut Brussels sprouts and cabbages.

12. The most suitable time for pruning berries and orchards is late autumn. Wounds after pruning must first be lubricated with brilliant green or hydrogen peroxide, and then either with natural oil paint, or with bitumen, or with a very liquid garden pitch.