September Garden Tasks

• Transplant trees and shrub in the cooler weather and water once a week until the  end of season.
  
  
• Seed or sod a new lawn.
   
• Apply a fertilizer to lawn, use a slow release fertilizer to prevent leaching.
   
• Avoid fertilizing and pruning trees and shrub as this will only encourage new growth which may not harden before winter.
   
• Harvest apples and pears.
   
• As the cooler weather approaches the growth of grass slows down. General maintenance work can be done in this period.
   
• Falling leaves may be raked off the lawn.
   
• Check that autumn flowering herbaceous plants are staked effectively.
   
• Divide and transplant daylilies and iris.