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| Still looking ok, so frosts stay away ! |
It’s definitely getting a litter cooler and the days are
already getting noticeably shorter but there’s still lots to do in the garden. Lots
of flowering plants still need deadheading, and continue with the harvesting of
fruit & vegetables from the garden.
The main jobs that we should be doing this September are:
·
Harvest
– continue harvesting Potatoes,Onions,Apples, & Pears
·
Seed –
collect seed from your favourite perennials and hardy annuals for sowing, to
increase your collection or replace existing plants.· Cuttings – time now to take hardwood cuttings from fruit bushes and shrubs, again to increase or replace existing stock or for swops/gifts to other gardeners.
·
Strawberry
runners - you might still get to root a few runners if the warm weather
keeps growth going, but if you already have taken some, you can think about
planting up a new strawberry bed.
·
Fruit
– protect autumn fruit like Raspberry & Blackberry from the birds with
protective netting if not already planted in a fruit cage.
·
Bulbs
– time to think about spring colour! Bulbs can be planted not to avail of the
last of the heat to provide a blast of colour in spring when we’ll have little
else. If your flower beds are not ready to disturb or not sure where to plant them yet , pots and containers make sense - you can always put them in the ground later.
· Divide plants – you can divide your herbaceous perennials now to again increase stock , but also some do get a bald spot in the middle if they become too large, by dividing them they’ll look better next year. Pay particular attention to perennials you have in pots, if they get pot bound they will struggle to preform.
·
Sow –
the following can be sown now: broad beans, hardy peas, spring cabbage, winter
lettuces, spinach and garlic ( outside in mild areas or in pots to plant out
later)
That's enough to keep us all busy this month - so Happy Gardening !
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