What to do in your garden during September

Plant & sow

Annuals

Start sowing summer-flowering annuals from the middle of the month:

Vegetables

• Sow vegetables like:

Bulbs

Towards the end of the month, plant summer-flowering bulbs

Garden Maintenance

• Water the lawn once a month. 
• Water all fruit trees well once a month. 
• Deadhead annuals to prolong their flowering period.
• Feed annuals with a fertilizer high in potassium.
• Spray apples and pears against codling moth, and start spraying peaches and nectarines every 10 days against fruit fly.
• Thoroughly water all shrubs, trees and climbers. Feed fig trees.