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GARDEN CALENDAR

September

Lawns:

• New lawns can be sown or turf laid.
• Worn areas can be resown.
• Set the blades of the mower to a medium height.

Bulbs:

• Spring flowering bulbs are now in stock. Buy early for the best choice, chose large bulbs for better flowers.
• Plant Daffodil and Narcissi bulbs.
• Pot up bulbs for indoor flowering.

Flower Border:

• Dead head perennials. If desired cut down dead stems or leave over winter for an architectural look.
• Dead head roses and tie in new shoots on climbers.
• Divide and transplant rock plants if they are spreading too far.
• Begin autumn planting of shrubs, trees and hardy plants.
• Water Dahlias when necessary and support.
• Plant out Carnations and Pinks and pinch out growing tips.

Vegetable Patch:

• Harvest Onions and Shallots and allow them to dry naturally.
• Pick French Beans and Runner Beans.
• Lift main crop Potatoes.

Fruit Gardens:

• Pick Apples and Pears.
• Watch out for Peach leaf curl, burn any diseased leaves and treat the tree with copper fungicide.