Seasonal Tips
Your garden this month
Gather your harvest, save your seeds and enjoy an autumn trim and tidy in the September sun.
Remove dead, damaged, fungus infected and diseased shoots. But, lovingly leave hollow sticks, healthy woody stems and plant cuttings under hedges or quiet corners for hedgehogs and invertebrates to shelter. And leave fallen plums and fruit, like jam to butterflies; they adore the sticky juice.
If you’re looking forwards to growing orchard fruit, order trees and native hedgerow whips now, to go in the ground in November. As the nights draw in, the days are still long enough to grow parsley, rocket and coriander from seed. Enjoy aromatic herbs by drying for winter recipes and their seeds for growing next year.
Create space in your pond, hauling out weeds and over grown plants onto the edge so wildlife can return to the water. Allow time to reflect on your gardening endeavours and fully appreciate all you have achieved. While birds and mammals have enough to eat too and invertebrates cosy down in fallen leaves and log piles for the autumn.
