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With summer gone, September is the month the begin preparing your garden for the winter and the colder months ahead. During this month there are plenty of gardening jobs which need completing. In autumn you should be getting your plants ready for the winter, harvesting fruit and vegetables and also planting spring bulbs ready for next year.
September Gardening Jobs
• Divide herbaceous perennials - The moist September weather makes this a good month in which to do this. The roots will still be active but the tops will be dying back.
• Prepare your greenhouse - When the colder weather arrives you will need to bring certain plants into the greenhouse to help them survive the winter. Make sure your windows are clean and clear to allow maximum light into your greenhouse and all surfaces are clean and tidy.
• Plant spring bulbs including tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocus. Each bulb should be planted three times deeper than the diameter of the bulb. For example a crocus bulb which is one inch in diameter should be planted three inches deep.
• Dig up and compost summer bedding plants now that they are over.
• Rake your lawn removing all fallen leaves.
• Clear the pond of fallen leaves.
• Tidy your borders - cut down faded perennials and pull out finished annual plants.
• Young trees grown in pots can be planted out.
• Prune your rosebush and remove the last of the flowers once they have withered.
• Sow a new lawn from seed.
• Force hyacinth and narcissi bulbs for Christmas.
Fruit and Vegetables
• Onions - Your onions will be nearly ripe when the tips of the leaves begin to turn yellow. When this occurs break them at the necks as this will speed up the ripening process. Loosen the soil around them to encourage growing. After a couple of days take them out of the soil and leave them to cure on dry ground.
• Tomatoes - Before the first frost any unripe tomatoes should be hung upside down in a cool dark place still on the vine to ripen.
• Rhubarb, Strawberries and Raspberries - Relocate these three fruits before the first frost occurs as they deplete the soil of nutrients in a very short space of time. These plants should be moved every three or four years.
• Pears - Pick ripe pears.
• Marrows - Cut and store before the frosts.
• Plant spring cabbage, kale and Savoy's.
About this Author
Vicki Copp is an experienced gardening writer for Jacks Garden Store. For more great gardening tips visit Jacks Blog. At Jacks Garden Store you will find great price greenhouses and cold frames which are perfect for protecting your plants during the winter months ahead.
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