September
Weddings and wonders begin in earnest. Flowers flourish and there is a frenzy in the air as the new season activates our souls and reawakens our spirit. Smell the roses, walk barefoot on the grass and delight in nature’s simple gifts – flowers.
Prepare
Remove winter veg that have finished cropping and dig any peas and broad beans back into the soil to enrich
Sow spring season flowers
Plant summer vegetables you are raising yourself from seed into egg cartons or peat pots that can be planted whole into their new garden once frosts are over
Plant beans and sunflowers with corn in the traditional ‘three sisters’ method of companion planting
Feed fruit trees with a balanced all-purpose fertiliser
Mulch garden beds
Plant up a herb garden
Repot indoor plants
Repot cymbidium orchids
Enjoy
A walk in our display garden as its in full ‘spring’; don’t miss the wisteria arbours and cream clivias
Fresh peas from your garden
New season strawberries
Flowering blossom trees
Grevilleas and the lorikeets and honeyeaters that they attract
Have on hand
Stakes to support tall perennials, tomatoes and climbing beans
Rooting hormone for soft wood cuttings of coleus and other show stoppers you might want to mass plant
Egg cartons to raise seedlings like pumpkins, zucchini and cucumbers
Plant up a herb garden
Some seed raising mix
Glass jars to protect ripening strawberries from birds – just slip the truss inside them
Potting mix for repotting your indoor plants
Orchid mix for repotting your Cymbidiums
The mulch WHOFLUNGDUNG by Neutrog is biologically activated and weed free – get it out there!
