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Essential Gardening
For September
If you don’t have a compost bin or store,
now is a very good time of year to start one!
It is essential for a healthy garden to put
goodness back into your soil and your
garden waste recycled can provide you with
an endless (and free) supply of organic
richness.
A top tip for composters is to not add any
diseased or pest ridden material to your
heap – it will just nurture nasties and mean
that they could kill off some of your prize
garden specimens in the future. You can
add grass clippings, leaves, old vegetable
plants and peelings (not potatoes!)
It is best to burn anything very woody or
chip it (and the ash or chippings can usually
be added to your compost heap)
If you have a greenhouse now is a good time
to give it a thorough clean when you have
removed all your crops e.g. tomatoes and
cucumber – you will stop pests making a
lovely home in there and be ready for a new
growing season next Spring!
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Autumn provides ideal planting conditions
(warm moist soil) particularly for container
grown shrubs, trees and fruit bushes.
One of the most important things to ensure
success is to water well by soaking the
rootball of the plant in a bucket of water
until there are no more air bubbles coming
to the surface. Dig the hole, ensuring that
the plant is planted to the right depth – put
water into planting hole and backfill the
hole, firming the plant in well to prevent
future windrock.
September is a good time to select and plant
some attractive bulbs to add a splash of
colour to pots and borders in late winter/
early Spring.
For something a little different from the
norm why not try some dwarf bulbs like
Allium, Fritillaria meleagris, Anemone,
Chionodoxa, Eranthis and Scilla sibirica?
Finally, most perennial weeds are susceptible
to weedkiller this month and systemic
weedkillers (such as Resolva ) will carry on
working through the winter months.
By Kate Fitch
Please call 01925 766742
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