September Gardening To Do List

Monthly Calender for Newbie Gardener’s in the Southern Hemisphere.

September Notes

September is the official start to spring:
The new season for the kitchen garden is upon us so things can get hectic planting & sowing wise this month.

PLANTING

Sow Direct Seed of:
Vegetables:
Jerusalem Artichoke
Potato
Radish
Chinese Lettuce (headed & Open)
Cabbage
Grain Crops
Lettuce
Mizuna
Rocket
NZ Spinach (pre-soak seed)
Tatsoi
Herbs:
Coriander
Flowers:
Statice

Sow or Plant Out:
Vegetables:
Beetroot (pre-soak seed)
Celery
Leek
Silver beet
Spring Onions
Herbs:
Burdock
Chives
Catnip
Echinacea
Hyssop
Meadowsweet
Oregano
Rosemary
Sage
Thyme
Yarrow
Chamomile
Motherwort
Verbena
Lavender
Flowers:
Dianthus
Ageratum
Snap dragon
Shrubs:
Herbaceous perennials
Daylily
Potted grapes
Evergreen Trees, shrubs & vines

After frost risk: Sow or plant out:
Vegetables:
Chinese (headed) lettuce
Silver beet (pre-soak seed)
Spring onions
Carrot
Bush & Climbing beans
Cucumber
Sweetcorn
Tomato
Herbs:
Dill
Chamomile
Lavender
Rosemary
Thyme
Lemon balm
Marjoram
Water cress
French tarragon
Valerian
Flowers:
Cosmos
Celosia
Livingstone daisy
African & French marigold,
Nasturtium
Sunflower
Bromelaid
Dahlia tubers
Gazania
Trees:
Avocado
Blue berry
Citrus
Cherry
Guava
Macadamia

In cold frames: sow:
Vegetables:
Asparagus
Cabbage
Capsicum
Aubergine
Pumpkin
Rock melon
Summer squash
Sweet potato
Water melon
Zucchini
Herbs:
Parsley
Sweet basil
Pyrethrum
French Tarragon

In frost free areas: sow or plant out: Banana, passionfruit & tropical guava
In cold areas: sow or plant out: Olive trees & day lily

Plant a green manure crop or cover crop of: Clover, barley, chickpea or millet
In suitable soils grow alfalfa, amaranth, buckwheat

Good time to sow grass seed or lay turf

GENERAL
Divide: Chives, lemon balm, globe artichokes
Prune: Lightly mature fig trees, suckers on Globe artichokes

As mentioned do as little as possible to your garden beds, except leave them to rest.

Tidy up fencing, greenhouse.

Clean tools, pots and floors.

FEEDING
On damp soil: apply fertiliser tea to:
Young rhubarb, asparagus seedlings and young crowns, celery, leeks, lettuce

Apply seaweed tea to: Tropical guava, pistachio & established roses
Apply ? strength to: Pineapple, established natives & gerber

After Watering fertilise: Kiwi fruit, almond, apple, apricot, peach, pear, mature pawpaw, tropical guava, olive, pecan, plum & rhubarb

Lightly fertilise:
Trees/Climbers:
Blueberry
Fig
Cherry
Guava
Pistachio
Herbs:
Bay
Lemon grass
Rosemary
sage
Thyme
Flowers:
Frangipani
Pelargonium
Palms

Also water, aerate & fertilise new lawn

HARVEST
Sub-tropical fruit
Herbs