Gardening Tips for September
By the time you read this, summer will be rapidly drawing to an end, unless we are lucky enough to have a late warm spell!
It’s harvest time now if you grow apples and pears. Store them carefully, but only store sound fruits, use up any fallers or marked fruit. You should be picking autumn raspberries regularly now, but summer
varieties should have been pruned along with blackberries. Tie in the long new shoots. Blackcurrants can
also be pruned. Take out a few of the old shoots from the base and trim some of the newer ones, aiming for a nice shape with an airy centre. Dig any remaining potatoes before they are attacked by slugs. When beans have fi nished cropping, the plants can be composted provided they are healthy – but bin any that are diseased. Cut them off at the base and leave the roots in the ground as they will feed the soil as they rot. Cut back gradually on watering tomatoes and remove most of the foliage to encourage them to ripen.
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If your baskets and tubs are still looking good, keep them watered and fed. However if they aren’t looking great then it is time to think about emptying and replanting with bulbs and winter bedding. Layer different types of bulbs, tulips fi rst, followed by daffodils, then crocus, topped off with pansies or primroses. You could plant up an evergreen tub, using small potted shrubs, ivys, etc, and you could still add small bulbs and pansies. As you remove plants like pelargoniums and fuchsias you could pot them up for next year as long as you can keep them frost free. Cut them back and use the shoots for cuttings.
As the weather starts to cool down it is a good time to move trees and shrubs if necessary. Make sure you add some good compost and fertiliser to the planting hole and water regularly. New ones can be planted now as well and will grow well whilst there is some warmth in the soil. Prune climbing roses when they have fi nished fl owering by cutting side shoots back to a couple of buds. Tie in new young shoots to supports. Remove any dead, diseased or spindly growth and by removing an old thick stem from the base it will encourage new growth. Pick up any diseased leaves to stop them re-infecting the plant next year.
When cutting the lawn, raise the cutters slightly. Apply an autumn feed after scarifying and aerating. Now is a good time to make a new lawn with either seed or turf.
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