The Michael Griffiths

17/10/2026

You don’t need a garden this big to steal its autumn plan 🍂

When you’ve got thousands of bulbs to plant and hedges that take weeks to cut, you can’t wing it. The same rules work in any garden:

🌷 Get bulbs in while the soil’s still warm
✂️ Do the big jobs first, before the weather turns
🍂 Leaves go on the beds, not in the bin
🗓️ Break it into small jobs over a few weekends

What’s top of your autumn list?

13/10/2026

🌼 January: ‘January’
🌼 February: ‘February Gold’
🌼 March: ‘Jetfire’
🌼 April: ‘Trésamble’
🌼 May: ‘Pheasant’s Eye’

Fill your pot a third full of compost, pop the bulbs in pointy end up, then cover them over. That’s it. One pot, five months of colour 🌱

Plant them now, before the ground gets too cold.

Save this for your next trip to the garden centre 📌 and send it to someone who loves a daffodil 💛

Which month are you most excited for? 👇

11/10/2026

Six months on and I still get a lump in my throat when I see my gardening book on a shelf 📖🥹

None of this happens without you. Every comment, every question and every photo of your gardens you’ve sent me since my first how-to video ended up shaping The Easy Garden. It’s as much yours as it is mine.

So, thank you. Truly 💚

Send this to someone who needs a little push today 💌

What’s the one thing you’ve been putting off starting, in the garden or anywhere else? Tell me below, and I’ll be cheering you on 👇

10/10/2026

🌱 On soil and borders: leave them exactly where they fall. They’re free mulch and a winter home for wildlife
🟫 On your lawn: clear them. They block sunlight and air, and you’ll end up with dead brown patches by spring

What to do with them:
🍂 Blow or rake them off the lawn, or even better, use a garden vac to suck them up and shred them in one go
♻️ Add them to your compost
🗑️ Bag them up for leaf mould. Pop them in a bin bag, poke a few holes, add a splash of water and leave them for a year or two
🌿 Or tip them straight onto your borders

Save this for leaf-clearing day 📌 and send it to whoever’s in charge of the lawn 👀

09/10/2026

08/10/2026

🪵 Build a simple box about 15cm deep from leftover pallet wood or whatever you’ve got lying around
📦 Add a few dividers so you can use different fillings
🌿 Twigs: perfect for beetles, woodlice, spiders and earwigs
🎋 Hollow stems: perfect for solitary bees and wasps
🌲 Pine cones: great for ladybirds and lacewings
✋ Pack everything in nice and tight so nothing’s flapping about
☀️ Put a back on it and hang it somewhere sunny, about a metre off the ground

Save this for the weekend 📌 and send it to someone with a pile of old pallets 🪵

What’s the best bug you’ve spotted in your garden? 👇

06/10/2026

The seed-saving mistake almost everyone makes 👀 Store them like this and they’ll actually grow come spring 🌱👇

✂️ Snip off the seed heads and pop them upside down in a paper bag
☀️ Leave them to dry for a couple of weeks. Most seeds will drop out on their own
📄 Tip them onto a sheet of paper and tap out any stragglers
✉️ Roll the paper into a funnel and pour the seeds into an envelope
✏️ Label it! You won’t remember come spring 😅

❄️ The bit people get wrong: put the envelopes in an airtight container with a silica gel sachet and keep it in the fridge until spring

💡 Pro tip: when you take the container out in spring, let it come up to room temperature before you open it, so condensation doesn’t land on your seeds.
That’s free plants for next year, from flowers you’ve already grown 🌸

Follow so you don’t miss how to sow them in spring 🌱
Save this for seed-collecting day 📌

What seeds are you saving this year? 👇

04/10/2026

Those green husks on English walnut trees are splitting open right now to reveal the nuts inside.

1️⃣ Pick up the ones that have dropped, or give the branch a gentle shake
2️⃣ Pull off any remaining husk. Wear gloves, because the juice stains your hands brown for days 🧤
3️⃣ Rinse the nuts and lay them out somewhere warm and airy for a couple of weeks to dry
4️⃣ Store them somewhere cool and dry, and they’ll be ready to crack by Christmas 🎄

Who’s getting to your walnuts first, you or the squirrels? 🐿️👇

01/10/2026

🌼 Plant bulbs: hyacinths, crocuses, daffodils and alliums go in now. Hold off on tulips until late October, when the cooler weather helps prevent tulip fire.
🌱 Lawn: last chance to aerate, scarify, overseed and patch up bare spots
🪴 Divide perennials: free plants to fill gaps in your borders
🍁 Refresh pots: swap tired summer displays for autumn colour
🧦 Stop empty pots blowing away: stack them inside an old pair of tights
🌾 Collect seeds: pop them in an airtight container with two moisture-absorbing sachets and keep it in the fridge, so they stay dry and ready to sow next spring
💧 Install a water butt: make the most of all that autumn rain
🍋 Protect citrus and tropical plants: move them somewhere sheltered or wrap them up before the first frost

📖 Every job for every month is in The Easy Garden.

Save this so you don’t miss a job 📌 Which one are you tackling first? 👇