September Gardening Jobs

As summer turns into autumn make sure that the necessary tasks are carried out to keep the garden flourishing until the first frosts. As well as planning and preparing the garden for the new season and for the following spring.

The following are the priority gardening tasks for this month:

Continue to deadhead and feed summer bedding plants to prolong colour well into the winter months.

Two hands pruning sedum plant with secateurs.

Cut down perennials that have finished flowering and mulch soil with compost or well-rotted manure. Continue deadheading late flowering perennials.

Divide large perennial clumps like crocosmias, euphorbias, delphiniums’ etc. Regular dividing will invigorate them with better flowering next year.

Stores are now well stocked with spring flowering bulbs for planting in pots and borders to provide a succession of flowers from January to May.

Now is a perfect time to plant autumn and spring bedding plants to take over when the summer colour fades.

This is a good month to sow a new lawn and repair bare patches in existing lawns.
Autumn is a great time for shrub planting especially evergreens.

Grass seeds starting to sprout in a freshly seeded garden

As the leaves start to fall from the trees, now is the time to invest in a leaf blower. Start to clean up any leaves around your garden so it doesn't become a major task in a few weeks!