Garden Checklist

This is the time thougths turn to family and friends.

Tasks: Top dress warm-season lawns with well-composted manure.
Pruning: Leaf fall is the time to start pruning--except for apricots and olives, which should have been done in August.
Fertilizing: Feed cool-weather plants and vegetables.
Planting: continue to plant cool-weather annuals early in the month; Canterbury bell (Campanula); allium, anemone, Babiana; from seeds--carrots, lettuce; snapdragon (Antirrhinum), calendula, chrysanthemum paludosum; azalea.
Things to Ponder: do not be too eager to replace plants damaged by frost as many have remarkable powers of recovery.