Things to do in September

  • Use horticultural fleece to cover late crops of salads and courgettes
  • Sow overwintering onions as well as quick crops, such as baby spinach, for salad leaves
  • Continue to harvest French and runner beans, autumn cauliflower, cabbages, lettuce, marrows, maincrop potatoes, pencil leeks, onions, rocket, shallots and spring onions
  • Pot up herbs such as basil, chives, coriander mint and parsley
  • Pick the first autumn fruiting raspberries and Conference pears, blackberries and apples as they ripen
  • Prune cane fruits
  • Leave root crops such as beetroot, carrots, parsnips, swedes and turnips in the ground for winter
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