Slugs and Salal - December tasks

Complete planting spring-flowering BULBS this month.
Supply HOUSE PLANTS with extra humidity by grouping plants together, and setting pots on beds of damp pebbles in leakproof trays.
Slip small packets of SEEDS GATHERED from special plants in the garden into CHRISTMAS CARDS you send to gardening friends and relatives.
Make a start on flower and vegetable SEED ORDERS. Keep a record of what has been ordered, and note each item's proposed site in the garden.
Have mowers and power GARDEN EQUIPMENT serviced.
Fashion HOME-MADE GIFTS and gift baskets using potpourris, herbal vinegars, jams and jellies, chutneys and preserves.
Check STORED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, and remove any that are spoiling.
Select gifts for gardening friends and relatives at local garden centres. Treat yourself to a potted Yuletide plant.
Close to Christmas, GATHER GARDEN GREENERY to decorate the house for the holidays. Clip shoots of needle-bearing and berried broad-leaved evergreen plants, and gather deciduous shrub branches that have berries and colorful bark.
When POTTED BULBS have filled their containers with roots and top growth has begun, take the pots out of cold storage and bring them gradually into full light to bloom at a bright, cool window.
As soon as seed orders arrive in the mail, FILE SEED PACKETS according to their time of sowing and store the packets in a dry, dark, cool place.