Your Garden Guy: Put these eight items on your garden to-do list

Fall is the very best time to design and plant the landscape. Save time and money with a professional design.

Now is the time to dig and divide perennials. This will encourage healthier plants, and better blooms.

Clean weeds and debris from summer beds. This reduces disease and insect problems, plus the beds will look neater.

Sow seeds of cool season crops such as spinach, kale, turnips and lettuce.

Prune gardenia, ligustrum, boxwood, yaupon, juniper and any shrub that will not bloom or have berries this fall and winter.

Remove privet from every part of your yard; it is a nuisance shrub.

Finally the rains have stopped! It’s feast or famine. Turn the irrigation on and get out the hose. Hot and dry is here.

Spring blooming daffodils are in stores now. Buy and start planting right away. Add them to fall containers for spring blooms -- the more the merrier!

Todd Goulding provides residential landscape design consultations. Contact him at www.fernvalley.com or 478-345-0719.

This story was originally published September 2, 2015 at 10:17 PM with the headline "Your Garden Guy: Put these eight items on your garden to-do list ."