Fruit, Vegetables, Flowers, Shrubs, Lawns and Greenhouses - Gardening Jobs for September
Jobs for September
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FruitList Item 1
- Prune out old canes from summer fruiting raspberries
- Pick autumn raspberries
- Tidy up existing strawberry plants
- Plant new strawberry plants
- Harvest apples and pears
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VegetablesList Item 2
- Lift and store root vegetables
- Harvest main crop potatoes
- Raise pumpkins onto a saucer or seed tray so they are not in contact with the ground and rot
- Remove leaves that are shading pumpkins so they can ripen
- Cut off tomato leaves to expose the fruit so they can ripen
- Plant spring cabbage
- Sow chervil, coriander and dill
- Sow spring onions
- Plant onion sets
- Plant garlic
- Sow winter lettuce
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FlowersList Item 3
- Plant bulbs for spring flowering - except Tulips (leave these until November)
- Plant Colchicum - you must plant now
- Plant Saffron Crocus - you must plant now
- Plant Narcissus (Daffodils)
- Continue deadheading to encourage plants to continue to flower
- Clear away summer bedding plants that have finished flowering
- Cut off Agapanthus flowers that have gone to seed unless you want to save the seed
- Plant pansies and violas
- Plant sweet william
- Plant wallflowers
- Water dormant cyclamen bulbs
- Plant prepared Hyacinth bulbs for Christmas flowering (they take between 11 and 13 weeks to flower)
- Collect flower seeds to store such as Tithonia, Sunflowers, Calendula and Cosmos
- Take root cuttings of Anemones and Acanthus
- Take Lemon Verbena Cuttings
- Take Pelagonium cuttings
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ShrubsList Item 4
- Plant trees, shrubs and conifers - autumn is a great time to plant as the soil is still warm
- Trim hedges
- Move shrubs if required but move with a large rootball
- Take cuttings of hardy shrubs
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Lawns
- Sow grass seed from the middle of the month
- Continue killing lawn weeds
- Top dress with coarse sand and compost
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Greenhouse
- Bring houseplants that have been outside into the greenhouse
- Sow early vegetables
- Sow godetia, larkspur and phlox
