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September Vegetable Jobs
Event Details
Time: August 2, 2012 from 6am to 7pm
Location: garden or allotment, greenhouse or windowsill
Event Type: vegetable, jobs, september
Latest Activity: Aug 2, 2012
Event Description
Jobs in September:
Key job for September is to prune stone fruit - such as nectarines, apricots, peaches, plums, gages and damsons - immediately after harvest.
It's also a good time to order new fruit trees, canes and bushes.
Sow vegetables for overwintering, to mature next spring, including turnip, spinach, winter lettuce, lambs lettuce, rocket, Oriental vegetables and plant overwintering onion sets.
Ready to Harvest:
- Tomatoes, salad crops
- French & runner beans
- Courgettes, cucumbers
- Peppers, sweetcorn Onions & shallots
- Marrows, pumpkins & squashes
- Globe artichokes
- Apples & pears
- Quinces, medlars
- Plums, damsons
- Autumn raspberries
- Perpetual strawberries
- Grapes, melons, figs
- Kiwifruit, cranberries
More...
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Grow-Your-Own/jobs-to-do/September
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/todo_now/archive/sep/veg_gard_now.php
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