Provided is a list of tasks you need to perform in your garden during November. Please understand your gardening zone which is identified in the menu above. Look for Hardiness Zones.
Zone 1
- Thin dense-growing trees to avoid wind damage
- Apply mulch around plants after ground freezes
- Cut back chrysanthemums after bloom; mulch heavily or dig and store in basement or garage
- Set up burlap screens on windward sides of choice shrubs
- Prune deciduous trees and roses after leaves have fallen
Zone 2
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
Zone 3
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
Zone 4
- Cover perennial, vegetable, bulb, and strawberry beds for winter
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded fall-blooming bulbs after leaves yellow
- Buy spring-blooming bulbs
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Protect roses for winter
Zone 5
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded fall-blooming bulbs after leaves yellow
- Buy winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Protect roses for winter
Zone 6
- Start fall compost pile
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded fall-blooming bulbs after leaves yellow
- Buy winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Protect roses for winter
Zone 7
- Plant ornamental trees
- Cover perennial, vegetable, bulb, and strawberry beds for winter
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Pre-chill tulips and hyacinths for indoor forcing
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Rake lawn to remove debris
- Protect roses for the winter
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs during or just after bloom
- Prune hardy deciduous and evergreen shrubs and vines
- Protect tender plants from frost
Zone 8
- Lightly cover perennial, vegetable, bulb, and strawberry beds for winter
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Plant or repair lawns
- Plant ornamental grasses
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-blooming shrubs and vines after bloom
- Plant cool-season or winter vegetable seedlings
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter vegetables
Zone 9
- Plant for winter color with annuals
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering shrubs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit trees
- Plant citrus
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Repair or plant lawns
- Rake lawns to remove debris
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune deciduous trees
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Plant seedlings of cool-season or winter vegetables
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter vegetables
- Protect tender plants from frost
Zone 10
- Set out winter-blooming annuals
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit trees
- Plant citrus
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Plant bare-root trees
- Sow cool-season or winter vegetable seeds
Zone 11
- Purchase living Christmas tree (but don’t bring it indoors until a week -or less- before Christmas)
- Plan next year’s garden
- Clean and oil garden tools
- Drain and winterize garden mechanical equipment according to manufacturer’s instructions
- When you bring in the living Christmas tree, keep it away from heating registers
- Keep gift plants in a cool, light place. Slit foil at bottom of pot to keep roots from drowning.
