– Keep everything well watered especially Camellias and Rhododendrons to promote development of buds for next year.
– Stake any flowers that are overly tall or heavier at the top to keep them safe from wind damage.
– Dead head lilies, perennials and bedding plants to help with longer a flowering period and next year’s growth.
– Prune wisteria and summer flowering shrubs once they have flowered.
– Prune rambling and climbing roses after they flower.
– Collect seeds and store them appropriately to plant them out next year.
The Kitchen Garden
– Harvest beans. Both French and Runner beans need to be picked early and often. This will prevent them from going to seed, stop them from becoming stringy and also encourage a second growth.
– Add a high potash feed like Tomorite to pepper, cucumber and aubergine plants when you see the first fruits.
– Water and harvest sweetcorn; harvest when milky juices come out of a corn if you pop it.
– Trim herb plants; cutting back old growth will allow a second growth that can be harvested before the cold weather sets in!
The Fruit Garden
– Feed citrus plants with a specialised feed or fertiliser.
– Give any container foods a high potash feed such as Tomorite.
– Protect your precious crops from birds with a netting over your fruit.
– Begin harvesting fruit trees such as plums, apricots, peaches and cherries.
– Remove mulching from around strawberry plants to avoid the spread of disease and plant out any rooted Strawberry runners for next year.
– Blackcurrant bushes need to be pruned after all of the fruits have been harvested. Only prune the stems that fruited this year.
Stake any flowers that are overly tall or heavier at the top to keep them safe from wind damage.
– Harvest beans. Both French and Runner beans need to be picked early and often. This will prevent them from going to seed, stop them from becoming stringy and also encourage a second growth.
