Gardening expert shares four things you must plant in your garden this November

With November bringing a start to the colder weather, many gardeners will be worried about what they can plant now to help the pots and beds flourish.

It can be an "overwhelming" experience sifting through the information to find out what will actually survive the harsher winter months. However, YouTuber Niall Gardens says now is a good time to grow a variety of plants, including edibles and flowers.

Niall’s aim is to offer “incredible” and “easy to grow” plants that offer a mix of colour, scent, and food. In his You Must Grow These in November video, Niall outlines a number of options to plant in your garden now, the first being garlic.

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Niall explained: "Garlic is easy because rather than having to start something from seed, you can buy the cloves, stick them straight in the ground and come early summer next year, you’re going to have a great crop of something brilliant.

“Garlic thrives when it’s planted in late autumn because it allows the bulbs to establish before winter. They’re going to sit fairly dormant and then they’re going to kick off in the spring.”

Niall says garlic should be planted in a sunny, well-drained spot, with each individual clove broken off. They should then be planted “pointy-side up” with bigger bulbs spread out and planted deeper in the soil..

For planting garlic, Niall advises choosing a sunny and well-drained location, separating each clove to plant them "pointy-side up". Larger cloves should be given more space and planted deeper to give them the robust start they need.

Beyond edibles, he recommends Allium Nectaroscordum for gardeners seeking an aesthetic touch. These distinctive flowers not only beautify gardens but are also magnets for pollinators and seamlessly fill the gaps between other blooms in floral beds.

Niall, a gardening enthusiast, explains that growing from bulbs, such as broad beans, offers less uncertainty than growing from seed or cuttings.

He says: "I really do think that growing broad beans is one of the easiest, high-powered, abundant and tasty things that you can grow at home. Because broad beans are hardy plants, you can get them started now in the autumn.

They’ll grow slowly over winter but then will kick into life properly in the spring. And because you get a bit of a headstart you get a nice early harvest in late spring."

For anyone wanting to spend a bit more cash, Niall suggested a mahonia as an “investment piece”. He says he likes his stand-out shrubs to “look good from a distance”, “look great close-up” and have an “all-year round interest”.

The plant's waxy, spiny leaves resemble holly but with a different pattern, and it flowers mainly in the autumn/winter with distinctive yellow flowers and berries.

Lastly, Niall recommends perpetual spinach for gardeners wanting to grow a leafy green from seed. Despite its name, he clarifies: "Despite its name, it’s not actually a true spinach, it’s actually a chard, also known as leaf beat."

Perfect for salads, stir-frys or sautéed dishes, this plant can be harvested every six weeks, providing continuous growth with its "cut and come again" nature.