Care & advice for your September garden

✔ Plant spring bulbs such as fritillaries, daffodils and crocuses, but wait until November to plant tulips.

✔ Plant up containers with viola and wallflowers for autumn colour.

✔ Treat veg beds and borders to deter pests over the more rain filled months.

✔ Sow lawn seed now, before the temperatures drop. Remember to keep off new lawns for a few weeks while they are getting established. Rake, aerate and feed existing lawns, and tackle moss with a moss treatment like Westland Moss Master.

✔ Now’s a good time to plant perennials, shrubs and trees, while the soil is still warm. Plant some late-flowering plants like sedums, salvias and asters to support the bees and other pollinators.

✔ Now is the time to plant autumn-hardy onion, shallot and garlic sets.

✔ Plant autumn bulbs like nerines and colchicums.
✔ Bulbs grow wonderfully in pots & planters, so ensure to grow in a good quality rich soil.
Get your flower bulbs off to a great start by selecting a rich soil. We also have all of the essential accessories you need to plant & pot.

✔ Sow biennials in preparation for next year, including foxgloves, dianthus, and wallflowers.  
✔ Biennials are fast-growing plants that flower prolifically over a long period.
See our full range of Biennials you can plant out this month, including, Pansy, Delphinium, Viola & Lavander varieties.

✔ Feed dahlias fortnightly with a high-potash liquid feed to encourage masses of beautiful blooms.
✔ Ensure to deadhead repeat flowering roses to keep them flowering.
Feed your flowers with a premium solution developed to grow even more flowers than other plant feeds available now.

✔ Pick Lavender for lavender bags to perfume your wardrobes.
✔ Cut flowers early in the day before the essential oils burn off in the sun, although leave some flowers for the butterflies & bees for a healthy productive garden.
Invest in a sharp pair of hand pruners which are essential for preening your garden.

✔ Cut back hardy geraniums and delphiniums for a second flowering in late summer.  
✔ Divide overgrown clumps of bearded iris. Climbers will have alot of foliage & will require tying for support.
Find our selection of plant supports for your graceful giants, available now.

✔ Leeks should be ready to harvest now.
See our range of spades, forks, hand tools like trowels & secateurs to harvest.

✔ Cut back the leaves of squashes and pumpkins so the fruit can ripen fully in the autumn
sunshine.
See our range of spades, forks, hand tools like trowels & secateurs to harvest.

✔ Net leafy brassicas like kale, chard and Brussels sprouts to protect them from hungry birds.
Try 'Marshalls Liquid Tomato Feed' for juicier and tastier tomatoes.

✔ Sow green manure on empty beds to keep nutrients from washing out of the soil over winter

✔ Pick courgettes regularly to encourage more growth & watch out for pests.
We have an extensive range of pest repellants available from natural to organic.

✔ Finish harvesting rhubarb now so the plants can build up their reserves for next year.
Use rich fertilizers for healthy rhubarb plants for next year's bounty.

✔ Cabbage white caterpillars can devastate a crop, check and remove affected leaves.
Prevent cabbage white butterflies, caterpillar & aphid damage with our range or repellents.

✔ Harvest apples, pears and plums, and pick up windfalls..
We have a great range of tools available including our long handled pruner for easy reach picking.