Top tips for September gardening
- Keep dead heading summer perennials like helenium, echinacea, and penstemon to prolong their flowering through to the end of the month.
- Divide hardy perennials that have become too large from the end of September.
- Plant prepared hyacinths now for Christmas flowering.
- Add organic matter to improve clay soil before winter.
- Dispose of any diseased plant material at the first signs of attack. Never compost it! This can risk the spread of spores.
- Start planning your spring garden. Look around your garden and take pictures of any space you want to fill as a reminder when making your bulb order.
- Start planting spring flowering bulbs like crocus, iris, narcissus and snowdrops. Wait a little longer to plant tulips: they do best planted after the first frosts in October.
- Collect seeds from finished flowers and store in envelopes with their names ready to sow in the spring.
- Wash out any empty containers with Jeyes Fluid to remove any harmful bacteria.
- Start a compost heap with fallen leaves. Leaf mold is highly nutritious and can be used next spring for mulch.
- Plant autumn flowering crocus for a final shot of colour before winter.
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