September is a lovely month. The sun is shining and there is a feel of autumn in the air promising the colours and scents that go with this beautiful season.
As things start to slow down in the garden you can reflect and prepare for the year ahead. What did you like from this year? What didn’t you like? What worked and what didn’t work? What would you like to change or add to your garden next year? Now is a good time to reflect on all these questions and plan what you’d like to do and see in the garden.
The excitement for the new gardening year starts with the planting of winter and spring bulbs and this is just one of the September gardening jobs you can be getting on with this month. Other September gardening jobs you can be doing this month are:
- Plant perennials. September is a good time for planting. The soil is still warm with plenty of time left for the plants to develop their roots before the cold Winter weather arrives.
- Start planting Winter and Spring flowering bulbs in pots and borders such as daffodils, snowdrops and Crocus.
- Carry on dividing perennials
- Continue cutting back perennials which have gone over.
- Lift tender perennials and pot them up to overwinter in the greenhouse or somewhere warm and sheltered.
- Plant out spring flowering biennials such as wallflowers and honesty
- Plant trees, shrubs and new hedging while the soil is still warm
- Carry on collecting seed from perennials you’d like to try growing yourself.
- Sow hardy annual seeds such as cornflowers, poppies and marigolds in borders and pots to flower from next spring
Things may be slowing down in the garden in September, but there are still plenty of jobs to do in the garden and lots to look forward to over the next few months.
Happy Gardening!