September - Monthly Garden Tips

New perennials, trees and shrubs should be planted now that the cooler weather has arrived along with spring flowering bulbs such as daffodils.  Any climbing roses in your garden should be pruned once they have flowered and hanging baskets should be deadheaded and watered.  If maintained properly these can keep looking good until mid-autumn.

Any potatoes still remaining in the soil should be dug up now to protect them from slug damage and regularly pick your fast maturing vegetables, such as French beans, runner beans, courgettes, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes, to prevent them becoming stringy.  Ponds should be covered or netted to keep leaves out.