Here are some November garden tasks from the New England Farmer and Country Rambler of November 1, 1851:
November is a good time clean out and manure strawberry beds. Cover them, if convenient, with coarse herbage or brush of evergreens. Give the asparagus beds a rich coat of manure. Currants, raspberries and gooseberries may be transplanted this month with success if the work be well done. The red and white Antwerp should be protected. Throw out a spade full of earth from one side of the plant near thee roots, and this will enable you to bend it down over the hole without injury, when it may be covered with straw, or such other materials as can be spared. This may he omitted until near the close of the month if the weather is mild. Trim and tie up native raspberries. Cut out all of the present year that bore fruit, shorten in the tops of the new plants: and tie the hills to a stake or trellises.
This month affords favorable opportunities to layout the garden - that is, to arrange your beds, paths, make hot-beds, and decide where your young trees, shrubbery, beans, peas, early potatoes and other vegetables are to be placed. This may all be arranged upon paper during the winter, and thus give you a map of garden operations. This map will be found of service in the hurrying hours of planting and sowing, by showing at a glance the spot selected for the various trees and seeds it is intended to plant.
These are but a few suggestions or catchwords. The systematic farmer or gardener will find plenty of employment in all seasons of the year.
Yup, plenty of employment...You thought you'd pack it in for the year?
