NOVEMBER GARDENING TIPS for Mild Winter Climates

00:00 Intro
00:28 Vegetable Gardening Tasks
04:05 Herb Gardening in November
05:07 Pests in November
07:12 Container Gardening in November
07:42 Flower Gardening in November
08:02 Rose Gardening in November
08:23 Fruit Trees in November
10:42 Landscape Plants
12:20 How Often to Water in November
13:18 First Fall Frost

In this video, I’ll walk you through the essential tasks to tackle in your garden in November. Fall is a busy time, but it’s also the perfect month to enjoy your garden while preparing it for the cooler season. We’ll cover everything from vegetable gardening, fruit tree care, and landscape plants to managing your watering schedule and getting the most out of your cool-season flowers and herbs.

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Key November Gardening Tasks:
Enjoy Your Garden: Spend time cleaning, adding flowers and herbs, and enjoying your space.
Vegetable Gardening: Learn when to remove warm-season crops and get your cool-season crops planted in the right spots as the angle of the sun changes.
Harvesting Tips: It’s time to harvest your sweet potatoes, pomegranates, and roselle. I’ll share tips on how to know when they’re ready.
Fruit Trees: Start preparing soil for fruit tree planting in January, and make sure you’re harvesting pomegranates at the right time.
Pest Control: Manage aphids and caterpillars, and incorporate companion plants to help keep pests away naturally.
Landscape Plants: October is the best month for planting landscape plants—find out why and how to plant them successfully.
Watering Tips: As temperatures cool, reduce your watering schedule for trees, shrubs, garden beds, and containers.
Flower Gardening: Prune and plant perennial herbs and get those cool-season flowers in the ground!

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it’s November take time to enjoy the cooler temperatures this month but there are a few crucial tasks that you need to do to help your garden Thrive through the cooler months over the years I’ve learned things the hard way so I put together this checklist so you can learn things the easy way if you want to follow along you can download this checklist for free on my website I’m Angela from growing in the garden my Garden’s in Mesa Arizona I want to help you succeed even if you’re gardening in tough conditions a lot of people people love November the cooler temperatures bring a less frantic Pace to the Garden but that doesn’t mean we stop completely one of my favorite things about November are the harvests there’s so much to harvest and enjoy this month if you want to grow free sweet potatoes next year here’s what to do when you harvest before you harvest snip a few Vines and put them in water remove the lower leaves they’ll grow roots over the winter be ready to plant out next spring you should also save one of your potatoes from your Harvest plant it in a container with a pointy side down treat it like a house plant it will Sprout leaves you can root those and plant plant them next spring and finally when you harvest your potatoes leave one in the ground and it will Sprout and regrow next spring those are three easy ways to have endless sweet potatoes next season if you want sweet sweet potatoes you have to cure them curing helps convert the starches in the potato to Sugar that’s what tastes sweet cured sweet potatoes will also last longer in storage sweet potatoes need a warm humid area to cure well my house isn’t humid so here’s what I do put them in a single layer inside a plastic bag in a warm spot keep them there for about 2 weeks if they start to sprout you’ve done it too long you’ll know they’re cured when the skin tightens and isn’t easily rubbed off check for moldy or withered sweet potatoes use or discard right away now you know how to make sure your sweet potatoes are actually sweet if you want to know the best time to harvest Roselle here’s what to look for once it blooms the cxes are ready to harvest vest in about a week these are perfect the CX is fully developed but they haven’t started to open snip it off the vine and there’s a new one ready to take its place keeping your Roselle harvested means you’ll get more Roselle from each plant if you want to save seeds for next season leave one or two of the largest cxes on the plant they’ll start to open and turn brown and then you’ll know the seeds are fully developed if you’re growing Rosel here are my favorite ways to use it you can make make Rosel jam it tastes like cranberries but less bitter with a lemony flavor so good I like to dehydrate it and freeze dry it that makes it easy to use for drinks and tea I make Rosel Citrus tea a blend of my favorite Garden ingredients it’s tart and citrusy I like it hot or cold this jar is almost gone it’s time for me to make some more Roselle sauce a mock cranberry sauce we make for Thanksgiving every year mulch crops to insulate them from cooler temperatures the best mulch is free mulch use what you have this season I’m using compost to mulch my crops but I’ve also used straw fallen leaves wood chips use what you have does your asparagus look like this don’t cut it back all of these fronds are giving energy to the roots as long as it’s green leave it once it begins to turn yellow and brown cut back on watering and let it go dormant and then early next spring we’ll cut it off and get ready for New Harvest this is starting to go dormant but I’m going to wait till the rest of them die back although it is possible to overwinter Basil the plants get large the insides get Woody and the flavor gets bitter that’s why I like to take out most of my basil plants and make room for cool seasoned crops don’t rip them out it’ll pull out lots of roots and disturb the Swiss chard that’s growing instead snip them off right at the base now that Swiss Chard is going to get more sun same thing with this plant it’s always best to leave the roots they’ll add organic matter to the soil plus it’s a lot easier this has already gone bitter so I’m adding it to my compost and it will feed my plants next spring I’ll leave this one for the pollinators if you’re saving seeds from basil let them flour and let the flowers fully develop and turn brown on the plant once they’re brown you know the seeds have developed you can see those seeds right inside there those teeny black spots or basil seeds clip the Brown flowers from the plant put them in a paper sack the seeds will drop to the bottom of the sack you can save them for next season cabbage lopers can be a real pain you get holes in the leaves and they can really destroy a plant handpicking is often the best option but sometimes if a lot of plants are affected or heavily affected you want to use something like BT mix it up according to package directions and then spray both sides of the entire plant you don’t need to spray the other plants in the garden focus on the plants that are affected by the Cabbage lopers adding companion plants to your garden is an excellent way to get some help with pests so I’m planting alysum all around these roses to help me with the aphids that are sure to come the alysum has tiny flowers that attract different kinds of parsoid wasps and beneficial insects they feed on the flowers and more importantly their larvae feed on the AIDS that will eventually find these roses the best Pest Management is prevention add companion plants to your yard here’s a list of some of my favorite companion plants that you can plant throughout your garden this month I have a flock of birds that attacks my garden every afternoon they think it’s a buffet line so I’m going to show you a couple of things that I’m trying that are working this is typical bird damage they come in peck it to death you’ll see entire leaves cut off or broken off when it’s bird damaged a physical barrier Is Us usually your best bet cover up the plants that they like the most these are dollar store waste baskets they’ll work if the crop is small enough what have you done let me know in the comments if you have some great bird ideas I could sure use them if you see mice or rat droppings take action right away set traps and catch them keep setting until they’re gone always wear gloves don’t touch the Trap they will smell you on the Trap I use peanut butter as bait works every time once you’ve got the bait it’s time to set the trap now don’t touch it put it against a wall or an edge where you see the droppings and just wait check your traps every day and reset until the problem is gone it’s time to get out your small containers fill them up with soil and plant that’s a simple way to add lots of flowers to your garden plants and containers often need extra fertilizer those nutrients get flushed out along with the extra water about once a month feed your containers this is the the fertilizer I like to use less is more you don’t need to use a lot it’s helpful to give them a little bit of an extra boost always water well before and after you fertilize it’s time to remove the last of the warm season annuals clean them up to make room for cool season crops before you take them out look for any dried heads save seeds for next season continue planting and deadheading your cool season annuals fill up those beds with flowers it’s also a good time to plant wild flowers you’ll be so glad you did next spring to care for your roses this month keep them deadheaded cut off spent blooms to encourage another flush of blooms light fertilizer is also okay this month if you’d like to plant new roses it’s a great time I’m adding mother of pearl one of my favorite heat tolerant roses right here in my garden I can’t wait for the blooms if you planted strawberries it’s a good time to give them some fertilizer feed them about once a month while they’re actively growing so you can get lots of strawberries Citrus harvests begin in Earnest this month things like lemons tangerines calamondin and even some Naval oranges ripen during November picking Citrus is not like picking apples you don’t Harvest everything all at once the best place to store Citrus is on the tree pick just what you need for that day rind color isn’t the best indication of if the fruit is ready the only way to tell for sure is to try one and find out is your pomegranate ready to harvest here’s how to find out if it slips easily from the tree that’s a good indication that it’s ready the best way to tell if it’s ready is to open and check it if one is ready there’s more not far behind the other thing to look for is it will change from being round to having flatter sides that tells you the insides are all developed if the fruit splits open and you see red arrows inside it’s definitely time to harvest pick it before the birds get it do you know the easiest way to open up a pomegranate I’m going to show you how look for the top the part that didn’t come off the tree look for The Ridges you’re going to cut off the top of the pomegranate along those ridges score along each of those ridges look for the high part that’s where you’re going to score now you’ll break it apart into sections kind of like an orange put it arrows side down into your palm tap it with a wooden spoon and let the arrows fall out through your fingers let everything fall into a bowl of water if you miss any that pith floats right to the top and it’s easy to scoop off once that pith is gone strain it through a colander and it’s ready to eat so good at the end of a hot summer citrus can can often split Birds also peck holes in the fruit both of these attract gnats and fruit flies pick up any damaged fruit or Fallen fruit so we don’t encourage those pests sometimes in the valley we feel like we miss out on all of the fall color if you’re missing that in your life here are three things that you can plant peach trees pomegranate and Chinese pistache you’ll either get red or yellow leaves and beautiful fall and winter color if your queen Palms didn’t survive summer you’re not alone there’s a reason why they’re not adapted to the extreme heat that we get here instead of planting the same thing over again use this book to find a plant that’s adapted to growing in desert conditions if you have compost bends there’s going to be a lot of inputs coming from all of those trees pay some attention to your compost this month add some water turn it make sure that it’s breaking down you’ll be glad you did if you don’t compost now’s a perfect time to add a composting system to your yard it doesn’t have to be fancy some cities offer recycled trash cans you can build one with pallets or concrete blocks it can just be a big pile compost doesn’t have to be hard but get started composting if you have access to a lot of leaves but don’t want a compost here’s a tip for you bag them all up set them aside and don’t think about it until spring open them up that leaf mold will be ready to add to your beds next spring November is the perfect time to move perennials around your yard choose a cloudy day and dig the hole it’s going to go into before you start dig up the plant keeping as much of the root ball intact as possible and put it right into the new hole water well and don’t prune until you see new growth next spring newly planted seeds transplants trees and shrubs will all need more frequent watering until they become established keep an eye on your plants until they seem to settle in and you start to see new growth then you can back off a little bit on the watering for the rest of your landscape water needs will go way down as the nights get cooler and the days get shorter by the end of the month you’ll probably be Watering your landscape once every two weeks or up to a month as always check your soil first then you’ll know if your plants need water your garden beds will also need much less water overwatering is a common cause of why plants don’t grow well if things aren’t growing great check your soil if it’s always wet back off on the watering you’ll probably only need to water your garden beds once or twice a week it’s hard to believe but we may have our first fall Frost this month look up your first frost date on almanac.com enter in your zip code and it will tell you the average first and last frost here are three things to do before the first fall Frost first find out which crops need protection this pepper plant needs covered but that cabbage loves the cold second have burlap Frost cloth or even an old sheet on hand so you’re ready to cover and finally get a minimum maximum thermometer hang it in the shade in different parts of your yard that way you’ll know how different you are from the weather app on your phone for a complete list of what to plant this month check out my vegetable and flower guides they’re available on my website growing inthe garden.com I’m going to put this down all right here we go I just forgot everything you just said if you want to grow I think it’s not all right this is just talking I switched hands so is that okay all right it’s kind of out of breath I’m just going to end