September - being active in the garden

The sun gives all its strength one last time to turn September into a beautiful late summer month. Especially now, many gardeners want to spend more time in the garden. And in fact this is highly recommended, because there is almost always work to be done and it is precisely in September that you set the signposts for the coming year.

Preparations for a colourful spring garden:

Everyone would like to have a unique colourful garden in spring with tulips, crocuses, snowdrops and other early bloomers. To make this happen, the bulbs should be in the ground now in September! There is an old farmer`s rule that says: The bulb should be buried twice as deep as it is big!

Maintain the orchard:

In the orchard, all rotten and dried fruit should be removed so that it does not serve as a breeding ground for mould, fungi or disease and weaken the plants.

The first leaves cover the garden:

The first leaves fall from the trees as early as September. Since it is important, especially on wet nights, that the lawn is not covered, the fallen leaves should be removed directly from the lawn. The leaves can be thrown on a compost heap or collected in a corner of the garden that is not needed and used as a refuge for animals in winter.

Strengthening for the beds:

Green manure can be used to strengthen harvested beds in late summer and autumn. The plants loosen the soil, protect it and later, when the plants are ploughed in, enrich the soil with valuable nutrients that the vegetable plants will need next year. Lucerne, for example, is ideal for green manuring.

Sowing in late summer - the start of winter vegetables:

Seeds can also be sown in September. Either for harvesting this year, as with lamb`s lettuce, rocket, kale, winter spring onions or Asian salads. But also for the following colourful garden year with flowers such as foxglove, lupine, vetch, etc.

What you can sow / plant in September:

Flowers: red clover, winter vetch, lupine, foxglove.

Vegetables: chard, pak choi, winter purslane, spinach, winter pea, winter radish, winter spring onion, radish, garlic

Fruit: apple, pear, blackberry, quince, plum, cherry