Gardening Hints & Tips for the month

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Top 10 Gardening Jobs for September

1. Divide summer-flowering herbaceous perennials like hardy geraniums, salvias and hostas

2. Keep on deadheading summer bedding and it’ll carry on flowering until the first frosts.

3. Deadhead roses, penstemons and dahlias for late summer colour.

4. Water camellias and rhododendrons regularly – next year’s flower buds are developing now.

5. If you’re growing brassicas like winter cabbage or kale, net them to keep the birds away.

6. Net ponds before the leaves start to fall.

7. Get started on autumn lawn care – scarify, aerate, top-dress and feed your lawn, and cut it on a higher blade setting as growth slows down for the winter.

8. Raise pots on pot feet to stop them getting waterlogged and frozen over winter.

9. Clean out greenhouses and remove shading to make the most of lower light levels.

10. Take cuttings from pelargoniums and fuchsias.