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SEPTEMBER
FRUIT
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Pick perpetual strawberries, autumn fruiting
rasps, blackberries, blueberries, plums, damsons, peaches, figs, and early
and mid season apples, pears.
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Order new fruit trees and bushes.
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Complete summer pruning of apples and pears.
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Prepare for fruit storage, clean wooden trays and
boxes.
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Prune plums and damsons immediately after
cropping.
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Remove dead wood on wall trained cherries,
shorten pinched back shoots and complete tying in, cut out or tie down
strong vertical shoots.
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Continue to plant strawberries.
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Complete the pruning and tying in of summer
fruiting gooseberries.
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Prune blackcurrants. take cuttings from healthy
plants.
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Cut off mildewed tips of gooseberry shoots and
dispose of, take cuttings.
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Cut off old canes of blackberries and hybrid
berries after fruiting and tie in the new, in cold districts bundle the
canes together after leaf fall and tie to a lower wire during October or
November before frosts begin.
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Give final sprays to apples against bitter pit.
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Outdoor vines protect ripening fruit from birds
by covering by netting, fold back leaves to also assist ripening.
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Remove any damaged or mouldy grapes; check 2 or 3
times a week.
LAWNS
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Increase interval between mowing and slightly
increase the height of cut.
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Worms usually become active at this time of year,
no longer any chemicals the amateur can use, use a besom to sweep away
worm casts, these make ideal weed seed beds if left alone so that the
mower runs over them.
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Use an autumn fertilizer if the lawn is pale and
thin.
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Carry out lawn repairs towards the middle or end
of the month, bumps, hollows, broken edges and bare patches can be
corrected.
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Scarify first then spike any compacted areas,
then top dress with proportions of soil, peat, and sand.
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Treat any areas of diseased turf with a suitable
proprietary fungicide.
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Tackle moles this month.
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Best time for sowing grass seed for new lawns or
repair work.
GARDEN
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Prepare for planting new hedges this autumn by
digging a 3ft wide strip by however long and incorporating well rotted
manure into the subsoil.
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Propagate shrubs such as privet, Lonicera nitida,
Lavandula, Rosmarinus, Aucuba, shoots 6-9" with a heel and insert
into 3" deep in a slit lined with sand.
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Keep roses tidy remove faded blooms by pruning
back to a good bud lower down the stem.
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Plant bulbs in lawns by removing a square of
lawn, place bulbs in hole and place square of turf back.
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Untidy looking vigorous climbers can be tidied up
now by just pruning to shape
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Gladiolus corms should be lifted once the foliage
has died down, dry and clean the corms and store in a frost free area
until time to replant. GARDENING BY MONTH
Gardening in January
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