WITH winter approaching there’s a simple step you can take to attract robins to your garden.
Santa’s little helper will be drawn to your outdoor space with this budget buy.
Making a simple addition to your garden can help to attract robins (stock image)
Adding this one plant to your will boost the , particularly robins.
As Britain’s favourite bird, robins provide ecological benefits to your space.
This includes acting as a natural and aiding in seed dispersal.
While you can try to attract these birds with food, providing nest material can also be a huge draw.
Ivy benefits
According to the experts at Woodland Trust , robins are drawn to nest boxes if they’re under a natural cover.
This makes ivy or other climbing plants ideal additions to your garden set-up.
And you can now pick up pots of Ivy Mix for just £1.99 each from .
Available in classic green or with white detailing on the leaves, this budget plant makes the perfect autumn addition to your garden.
According to the product description, this “vigorous climbing foliage” can be “wonderful for creating dense coverage to create shade, cover structures, or act as a backdrop to other plants”.
It is also versatile and hardy, making it ideal for even the most inexperienced of gardeners.
Role of robins
Like all birds, robins can prove useful for tackling in your garden.
And with the decline in insects during the colder weather, robins are known to forage more on the ground.
This can help to aerate the soil in your garden throughout and .
Meanwhile, their droppings can help to act as a natural fertiliser in your garden.
And since the species mainly feed on fruits and seeds, they can also help with seed dispersal.
October gardening jobs
The Sun’s Gardening Editor, , has shared the jobs you need to tackle in October.
“It’s a good time to trim deciduous hedges – like box, yew, hawthorn, hornbean and beech – plus hedge trimmers are a great upper body workout!
Make leafmould – gather up all the fallen leaves and fill either bin bags or plastic carrier bags. Seal the top, stick a few small holes in the bag – and then store for a year or more. Free compost!
It’s unlikely you’ll get any more red tomatoes so have one final harvest and chuck the plants on the compost. See if you can get the green ones to ripen by putting in a drawer (some say with a banana). Also keep the seeds from a couple – and plant again next year if they went well.
Finish getting in your spring bulbs. Ideally you’d have done daffs and alliums, but tulips are better in the ground when the soil temperature gets a bit colder.
It’s good to leave some plant litter in the ground – it adds to the nutrients as it rots down, and provides shelter and food for insects. But remove the manky brown bits collapsing all over the lawn/winter structure.
Mulch – it not only suppresses weeds, but keeps the soil warm, improves water retention and adds a little winter duvet to your outside space.
October’s a good month for carrots, peas, asparagus, broad beans, and rhubarb.”
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Wilko shoppers can pick up an Ivy Mix pot for just £1.99 
