1. With Septembers weather forecast to be warm and sunny here in U.K., don't forget to keep watering veggies that are not yet ready to be harvested (other plants too). Give plants a good watering, perhaps once a week, rather than little and often.
2. If you are short on animal manure for your allotment, think about sowing a green manure such as mustard which can be dug or rotavated into the soil later in the year or next Spring.
3. Make "a re-cycled items list" of useful gardening items you ran out of this year. Examples, plastic bottles and other containers, bits of string for plant ties, jam jars, egg boxes for chitting potatoes. Etc etc.
4. September is probably the prime month to be stung by wasps. At this time of year wasps start to feed on fermenting/over ripe fruit so be wary of drunken wasps.
5. Sow some of the following crops in September. Spring onions, radish, Winter hardy onion white lisbon, Spring cabbages, Japanese onions. Autumn onion sets, garlic.
6. When lifting potatoes, spread them out on dry soil, to allow them to dry out before storing them.
7. If you are left with any diseased plant foliage don't compost it, burn it or dispose of it responsibly by other methods.
8. Strawberry runners should be ready for potting up at this time of the year.
9. New trees and shrubs can be planted in September helping them to become established.
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2. If you are short on animal manure for your allotment, think about sowing a green manure such as mustard which can be dug or rotavated into the soil later in the year or next Spring.
3. Make "a re-cycled items list" of useful gardening items you ran out of this year. Examples, plastic bottles and other containers, bits of string for plant ties, jam jars, egg boxes for chitting potatoes. Etc etc.
4. September is probably the prime month to be stung by wasps. At this time of year wasps start to feed on fermenting/over ripe fruit so be wary of drunken wasps.
5. Sow some of the following crops in September. Spring onions, radish, Winter hardy onion white lisbon, Spring cabbages, Japanese onions. Autumn onion sets, garlic.
6. When lifting potatoes, spread them out on dry soil, to allow them to dry out before storing them.
7. If you are left with any diseased plant foliage don't compost it, burn it or dispose of it responsibly by other methods.
8. Strawberry runners should be ready for potting up at this time of the year.
9. New trees and shrubs can be planted in September helping them to become established.
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SOWING/PLANTING IN SEPTEMBER
1. Winter hardy lettuce can be sown in September as well as hardy Spring Onions.
2. Spring Cabbages can be planted out now.
3. Parsnips will taste better if left in the ground until after a frost.
2. Spring Cabbages can be planted out now.
3. Parsnips will taste better if left in the ground until after a frost.
OTHER JOBS IN SEPTEMBER
1. Prune Summer fruiting Raspberries.
2. Runners from Strawberries can be planted now.
3. Add manure, lime or green manures to your soil, depending on each beds condition and your crop rotation.
2. Runners from Strawberries can be planted now.
3. Add manure, lime or green manures to your soil, depending on each beds condition and your crop rotation.
One thing about this year is we have't needed lots of watering. The council will have made a profit from our water charge.
ReplyDeleteCertainly different here from about April onwards, our allotment rep was commenting on how much water was being used. I had plenty of rainwater stored from last Winters deluges.
DeleteReally nice. Thank you for sharing your tips.
ReplyDeleteThanks Endah, I hope that some of the tips are helpful, although I appreciate that your growing conditions are different to ours.
DeleteThank you for these tips. I will buy some Winter Hardy Lettuce seeds. Marion
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome Marion, If the Winter weather is cold, cloches over the lettuce are a good idea, they should still survive but may be slow growing.
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