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Zone 4
- Harvest or heavily mulch the last carrots, beets, and other root crops; store them in a cool place that won’t freeze.
- Plant garlic and shallots.
- Sow a cover crop of winter rye in vacant beds.
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Zone 5
- Thin out one-third of the oldest branches of forsythia, lilac, spirea, and potentilla for better bloom and shape next spring.
- Dig up tender tubers and corms of dahlias, cannas, caladium, and gladiolius.
- Don’t cut back ornamental grasses, sunflowers, and wildflowers—leave them for winter interest and for wildlife.
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Zone 6
- Squeeze in a few last sowings of spinach and other cold-hardy greens, beneath row covers or coldframes.
- Have frost protectors handy to extend the harvest of tender veggies.
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Zone 7
- Bring zonal geraniums and vacationing houseplants indoors before the first frost.
- Thin the radishes, carrots, and turnips you sowed last month; then sprinkle the bed with 1 inch of compost.
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Zone 8
- Plant more lettuce, Chinese cabbage, spinach, carrots, beets, peas, radishes, onions, turnips, garlic, shallots, and cress.
- Set out strawberry plants.
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Zone 10
- Set out transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants.
- Mulch and water well—dry spells this month can last a week or longer.
- Finish pruning fruit trees so new sprouts can harden before cold arrives.
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