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September Jobs Calendar

 

   

Vegetable Beds

  • Lift main-crop potatoes - if there is blight around, cut haulms and remove 3 weeks before lifting
  • draw soil up around broccoli stems to protect from frost
  • Transplant spring cabbage seedlings
  • Remove blown sprouts - start harvesting
  • Cut down asparagus foliage and mulch bed well with compost or well-rotted manure

Fruit

  • Prune Raspberry canes - cut out old canes to make way for new growth
  • Finish planting summer fruiting strawberries

What's in Season?

  • French Beans
  • Runner Beans
  • Beetroot
  • Green Broccoli
  • Carrot
  • Cabbage - Summer, Savoy and Red
  • Cauliflower - Summer
  • Courgettes
  • Cucumber - outdoor
  • Lettuce
  • Marrows
  • Onions - from seed
  • Spring Onions
  • Peas
  • Potatoes - main crop
  • Pumpkin and Squash
  • Rocket
  • Spinach
  • Sweetcorn
  • Swiss Chard
  • Tomato - outdoor
  • Turnips - early
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