What to do in the garden during September

Plant & Sow

Sow summer-flowering annuals like:

Vegetables

For the vegetable gardener, early start in September means a longer growing season and then, of course, more veggies to eat!

Sow vegetables like:

Bulbs

Start planting summer-flowering bulbs:

Gardening Maintenance

Fertilize

Fertilize fruit trees, like:

• Ensure roses are well mulched.
• Spray apples and pears against codling moth; 
• Start spraying peaches and nectarines every 10 days against fruit fly. 
• Start thinning out peaches, plums, nectarines and apricots. 
• Fertilize Summer-flowering bulbs and keep them moist.

Gardening maintenance

• Mow the lawn if necessary.
• Mulch the garden beds.
• Start planning the summer garden now. 
• Remember to deadhead annuals and bedding plants regularly and feed every 2 weeks or so with diluted liquid fertilizer.
• Pull up spent winter annuals and vegetables and prepare the soil for new planting.
• Continue to remove weeds from lawns and pavings.
• Dead, diseased and damaged wood from deciduous trees and shrubs can be removed.