● Cut the grass if the weather remains warm and dry and trim the edges.

● Cut down all dead flower stems on herbaceous perennials and tidy borders to remove foliage and plant remains, compost this material.

Leave late-flowering perennials.

● Sow a row of hardy peas and cover with cloches. Broad beans can also be sown now.

● Remove old vegetable crops, clear the ground and dig compost or manure into the soil. Leave heavy soil rough-dug so frost can penetrate to help break it down.

● Lift dahlia tubers when the foliage has been blackened by frost.

● Throw a net over a branch bearing holly berries to stop the birds pecking at them.