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Your Monthly Guide: September

WATCH OUT:
  • Keep an eye out for slugs and snails as the weather gets wetter

  • An increase in white fly.

TO DO LIST:

 

  • Harvest, harvest, harvest

  • Deal with slugs and snails with whatever methods you see fit, slug pellets or egg shells.

  • Try to control increasing populations of white fly using whatever methods you seem fit this could be soft soap or insecticides. 

  • Complete pruning stone fruit trees this month e.g. plum, apricot, gage and cherries.

  • Prune out fruited stems on blackberries and hybrids. Tie in this year’s growth which will fruit next year.

  • Lift onions and allow them to dry before storing.

  • Start digging up main crops like potatoes ready for storage.

  • Harvest squashes when ready

  • Pick chillies and peppers as the ripen

  • Slow down on watering greenhouse plants as nights become cooler and remove dead leaves from plants.

WHAT SHOULD YOU SOW NOW?

 

  • Spring Cabbage

  • Spinach

  • Radish

  • Lettuce and leaves suitable for cooler weather

  • Green manure in cleared beds

  • A sowing of Belstar Calabrese overwintered in a cold greenhouse and then planted out in March gives the earliest pickings of the year.

September and October are the start of the new gardening year.
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