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Apples harvested
Basket of veg at Tottington
September 2024
I said last month that the sowing season is over but even this month you can still sow the seeds I mentioned in July and August for winter and spring cropping.
I told you the varieties of cabbages, cauliflowers and broccoli in July and varieties of lettuce, radishes, corn salad and endive in August. You can also still sow annual flowers and green manure as I described last month.
If you sowed any of the vegetables I have just mentioned earlier in pots, you may have some ready for planting. I have said before, whatever you plant, rake in some general fertiliser first.
Onion sets for overwintering can still be planted. I told you the varieties of these
and their suppliers last month. I don’t plant mine on the same bed as where I grow
my summer and autumn onions, though because this bed is manured in winter, and I couldn’t do so if there were crops growing. I plant them in the brassica bed where some have been harvested because, next year this will be the root crop bed which doesn’t get manured so they can grow undisturbed.
Garlic can also be planted now. There are varieties for planting in spring but those for planting now are elephant garlic (D .S. T. M.
R. B.), Caulk wight (M. R. B. F.), Germadour (D. S. T. M.), Edenrose (D. S. T.), Kingsland wight (D. S. T. M. B. F.), Messidrome
(D. S. T.), Provence wight (M. B. F.), and Carcassonne ( D. S. T. M. B. F.)
You can start planting spring flowering bulbs now, but not tulips which are better left till November to avoid them getting tulip fire, an incurable fungus disease. If tulips are planted too early, they produce soft growth which is more likely to be attacked by the disease. You can order bulbs from specialist suppliers but there will be plenty of choice in garden centres. There will be many
have just said about bulbs, you get a much better choice of varieties from a specialist supplier than from a garden centre. Trees
varieties of daffodils and narcissi, crocuses and several others.
It will soon be time for planting bare rooted fruit trees and bushes
from a garden centre
will be in pots and they can be planted any time because there is no root disturbance. Those from a specialist supplier will be bare rooted which means that they can
only be planted in the dormant season, between
Summer fruiting
raspberries and
blackcurrants can still be
pruned as I described
last month and also
loganberries which are
pruned the same way as blackberries.
November and March. If you do intend planting any, you can prepare the ground now by forking it over, getting rid of any weeds and digging in some rotted manure or garden compost.
You will need to carry on feeding
While on the subject of fruit, it will soon be time for planting bare rooted fruit trees and bushes. The reason I am telling you now is that you may want to order some from a specialist supplier. Unlike what I
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