Odd gardening jobs for September
There’s lots of planning and preparation for the new season during September. Here’s a few things you can be getting on with:
- Now is a good time to put up new bird and bat boxes
- Start to provide a variety of foods such as left over fruits and seeds to attract different species of birds to the garden
- Bring tender houseplants that have spent the summer outdoors back inside
- Keep an eye out for mildew and rust particularly on roses as due to the cooler, damp weather fungal diseases will begin to make an appearance.
- Continue to water the garden regularly if it remains dry
- Tidy the greenhouse and make sure there is space for tender plants that need care during winter
- Tidy up herbaceous borders, but leave the seed heads
- Stop feeding pot grown plants
- Put food and water out for hedgehogs before they hibernate. This should ensure the new young get big enough to survive the winter
- Tidy up the garden and start a compost heap, if you don’t already have one
- At the end of the month, once the foliage has died back lift, divide and store gladioli and dahlias before the frost damages them.