In your orchard
To discover
September: what are the seasonal vegetables and fruits?
This month in the garden: what to plant, sow or harvest in September?
Between the fruits of the orchard, the last tomatoes and the dried fruits, the harvests can still be abundant in
the fall
.
Be responsive for picking.
Apples, chestnuts, walnuts and hazelnuts fall off when they reach maturity.
Hurry to pick them up and sort them to avoid spoiling the entire harvest with damaged fruit.
At the end of the season, remove the dried fruit left on the trees.
In your flower beds and your vegetable garden
In an ornamental garden, pull up wilted annuals.
In the vegetable garden, remove the summer crops that have ended.
You can remove the mulch if you sow a green manure (plants that improve the structure of the soil and prevent its leaching: phacelia, clover, mustard, rye, vetch ...).
Or aerate your land with a grelinette or garden fork, if it seems compact to you.
If you leave the mulch in place, enrich it with the last mowing of your lawn and dead leaves.
"Mulching prevents the ground from freezing too deeply and allows micro-organisms to work the soil"
, explains Brigitte Lapouge-Déjean, landscape designer and author of the book
Je Want A Garden Right Now!
(ed. Living Earth).
Read alsoCan too much mulching disrupt soil respiration?
What to plant in the fall?
Fall is also the time to plant certain crops so that they can root properly in the soil and start in the spring.
Herbs, garlic and shallots can be planted in the vegetable garden.
In the vegetable garden, plant or sow:
aromatic herbs,
winter lettuce,
chewed up,
beans,
peas,
garlic,
shallots,
strawberries,
raspberries ...
In an ornamental garden, plant or sow:
spring bulbs (crocuses, tulips, daffodils ...),
hardy perennials (achillea, bellflowers, asters, coreopsis ...),
lavender,
rosemary...
In an ornamental garden, plant perennials, because the earth is still warm, wet, but not soggy.
Continue watering until the end of October if the weather is dry.
For your trees, wait for Sainte-Catherine.
First loosen the soil with a grelinette, weed and fertilize the area with compost or organic fertilizer.
Well mulched, your plants will be ready to start in the spring.
Produce your own seeds
It is possible to collect seeds from perennials. Harvesting takes place when they are mature, in dry and sunny weather. "Coreopsis, asteraceae, daisies and achillea lend themselves well to this exercise," says Brigitte Lapouge-Déjean, landscape designer. Let the seeds dry for a week, then store them in a paper bag until spring, before sowing.
