Here are some to-do’s for the garden in September.
Plant/Purchase
- Being purchasing spring-flowering bulbs
- Start planting bulbs, especially drought-resistance ones
- Plant bulb covers over spring flowering bulbs
- Start planting cool-season flowers to bloom during spring or winter
- Plant Sweet peas from seeds for Christmas bloom
- Start planting winter vegetables
Trim/Prune/Mow/Divide
- Divide irises that need division
- Start disbudding camellias
- Deadhead roses
- Start fall cleanup for perennials
- Remove faded and ratty flowers from warm season ornamental grasses
Fertilize
- Feed Fuchsias
- Feed all container-grown succulents with a well-diluted complete liquid fertilizer
- To maintain the color of blue hydrangeas,start treating the soil with aluminum sulfate
- Fertilize azaleas at month’s end for the second and last time of the year.
- Fertilize roses