Autumn Preparation Tips for Your Allotment or Garden!

If you haven’t done any autumn preparation on your alloytment or garden before, I can highly recommend it. It keeps you warm during the colder days that are setting in and saves you a butt-loads of work come the spring.

Check out the below autumn prerparation tips for you to do in your allotment or garden to help you get started:

1. Seed starting is a big part of the autumn prep list. You are looking for Hardy Annuals or Hardy Perennials to get started around this time of year. This means these guys can take a whopping great big load of snow dumped on them for most of December and still live to tell the tale, Great, aren’t they?!?
   

2. My next job is to source my dahlias for next season! This is quite possibly one of my favourite things to do during the autumn and I’m eagerly awaiting my favourite stockists to release this year’s beauties! About now I’m also usually starting to pour over old podcasts and dahlia accounts on Instagram to find out anything that has performed well that I can add to my collection. I always love a recommendation – so please pop them my way if you ever feel the need to shout about an amazing dahlia you have had this year!
   

3. Clean and secure your structures. Greenhouses and Polytunnels can and will take a battering during the winter storms and you want to ensure you still have these expensive items in place to use next year! Get them maintained and secured to live and grow another day.
   

4. Order your manure or compost in to mulch. It doesn't get better than doing loads of barrows filled with good stuff for your beds on a cold, sunny day. Especially when you head inside to a warming beef stew as a reward!
   

5. Get your spring bulbs planted up. Your spring bulbs will be even more amazing when they have had that prolonged period of cold stratification, or a big load of frost before they begin to bloom and remind you that spring really is on the way.
   

Early Spring on the Allotment