This November garden checklist is for Pacific Northwest gardeners who:

Haven't planted their garlic yet and want to know if it's too late
Want to protect kale, chard, and other winter greens from the first frost
Want to keep harvesting leeks, carrots, and parsnips through the winter
Want to put their beds to bed properly instead of leaving soil bare in the winter rain
Want the real Seattle timing and not the generic advice written for California or the East Coast
Have raised beds, containers, or a small backyard in the greater Seattle area

It's especially helpful because November is the turning point of the garden year. It's the last real planting window, with garlic going in by about November 10 and fava beans early in the month. After that, the work shifts from planting to protecting, harvesting, and planning, so your garden comes through winter in good shape and next spring starts strong.

Covers: garlic, fava beans, shallots, overwintering onion sets, row cover and cloches, kale, leeks, chard, carrots, parsnips, cereal rye, leaf mulch, clearing diseased plants, draining hoses and drip lines, and notes for next year's crop rotation, all with specific timing for Zone 8b-9a.

This checklist covers this month. When a crop comes out and you are not sure what goes in next, the PNW Succession Guide names the next crop, a backup, and the last date that still works, for about 30 Seattle crops.

November Garden Checklist (Zone 8b-9a)

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A one-page printable checklist that prints clean at home. It lays out what to do in your Seattle-area garden in November, sorted into the last crops to plant, what to protect and harvest, how to put your beds to bed, and what to note for next year, all with the specific timing for Zone 8b-9a. There's also a note on the garlic deadline and why every bare bed needs covering before the heavy rains. You'll get a download link at checkout plus an emailed link that lasts 30 days.
Print it and tape it somewhere you'll actually see it. If your garlic isn't in yet, make that your first job, on a dry day before about November 10, and get fava beans in early in the month too. Then set out row cover or cloches before the first frost and cover every empty bed with leaves, compost, or cereal rye. Harvest greens and roots as you need them, clear out diseased plants by mid-month, and drain your hoses before the first hard freeze. Before the month ends, write down what worked this year while you still remember.
The biggest one is missing the garlic window. Cloves planted after mid-November often sit in cold, waterlogged soil and make small bulbs, so get them in by about November 10. The second is pulling up winter roots too early. Carrots, parsnips, and leeks store best right in the ground under a thick mulch, and a light frost makes parsnips sweeter. The third is leaving diseased plants in the beds. Blighted tomato vines and mildewed squash leaves let pests and disease overwinter, so clear them out and keep only healthy material as mulch.

November Garden Checklist (Zone 8b-9a)

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How to use it

Common mistakes for November

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